Danny Romeril has fast emerged as an artist to watch in the London Art World. Raised in Jersey and now working from his studio in London, Romeril’s characteristic “clunky” style – reminiscent, as Rebecca Irvin of It’s Nice That noted, of Picasso or early David Hockney – reduces his figures and scenes to their foundational shapes, pushing the bounds of figurativism while often eliminating or confusing perceptions of depth in the process. In turn, the interplay within his paintings becomes not only between the various objects depicted within a given scene, but between form and texture. Romeril’s practice of layering coats of paint, while often painting “wet on wet”, results in thickened surfaces, often providing a depth and texture his planar construction of a scene might otherwise forego; so clear are his brushstrokes that their lines (and resultant surface qualities) are often visible, even in photographs.
But while Romeril is a mainstay of the London gallery circuit, his fanbase is far from exclusively domestic. The La Brea Studio Residency, where he was invited alongside his partner painter Florence Hutchings, took him to Los Angeles in 2019, marking his initial foray into the United States, while he has also exhibited in Melbourne, and twice in the past year in Germany, notably with a solo exhibition at Galerie Thomas Fuchs in Stuttgart. As his star only continues to rise, there is little question that the future brings only both bigger and brighter from the talented London notable.
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