Michael Swaney
Michael Swaney is an illustrator that works across several different media and in many different styles, however, I feel that his strengths lie in his paintings. The paintings I have chosen all appear to depict household scenarios, however, they are fairly unusual and playful due to the inclusion of people where they are not necessarily expected. There are characters in costume, a snake poking its head out of a wine bottle and levitating men, for example, that all add a bizarre element to what seems, at a first glance, to be ordinary scenes. The people in his paintings seem perverse and distorted. Each painting is very flat, with bright bursts of colour between muted tones.
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