Luck of the Devil - Red Brent Hallard of watching and waiting

of watching and waiting

The visual lexicon Snell has developed is informed by the Modernist history of painting

graphite and pastels

or gestural

Each shot is unique and creates a vibrant sense of depth

Luck of the Devil - Red Brent Hallard of watching and waitingThis work is part of a series titled "Flatland" paintings. They are works that consist of seemingly random squares on a painted surface that reflect the three dimensional world beyond the paintings immediate environment. The squares themselves are fashioned by a process of finding regular squares within the fluid lines of a freehand grid that run through the textured paintwork. If chance allows four lines to intersect to create a square, the oil paint