Paddy Hornby

  Paddy Hornby, now situated in South London based multimedia artist working predominantly in the realms of fine art painting, sculpture, writing, masked performance and film. He casts the bulk of his work into this world under ‘Chasing The Hound’.

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 On a desolate and boggy landscape, a dimly lit shack is filling with paintings and assemblages of reimagined matter. The walls are riddled with spindles of decay, the wood creaks a burnt sienna.

A hand caresses the objects and crooked furniture scattered around the studio, the scene for his work’s reality. A reality of ritual, decay and rebirth, where the lines between what is artist, what is environment and what is painting leak into the shared gene pool in which Hornby bathes.

He builds the structures of his paintings using whatever is around his studio or scraped off the curb of the outside. Shackling wood, linen, ropes, bones and scraps of metal together with clay, oil paints and ever-morphing combinations of binding agents.

His paintings slink into their camp, lying in the shadowy scenes of his dwellings. They blend themselves amongst the rusty backdrop. Humming, watching, bending with the flickering lamps.

The world presented is peppered with the archaic, the gothic and the apocalyptic. As he scribbles away, the rugged slabs of oil-mess talk to each other. The building moans and the whispering begins. Hornby aims to project the folklore of lost souls, forgotten landscapes and sunken civilisations on to those who step through his door.