Noah Rush

My work explores the experience of inner city life and what its like to travel around London on foot or bicycle. When cycling around central London, I don’t have time to stop and take each individual building in, I experience the city as a whole, a jumble of architecture whizzing past me. This is where the complex and hectic nature of my paintings comes from. The process these paintings go through  draws similarities to the life cycle of a building; under-drawings being similar to a  construction site, a finished layer is a complete building and scraping the paint back is the demolition process. I enjoy the contradiction between the simplified marks I make and the overall complexity of the painting. Like the city, lots of small, simple things come together to form a complex whole.