Glenn Badham
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As a competitive Ballroom Dancer since childhood, I have worked to improve my understanding of the human form and its place in the environment. Small, mixed media, rapid sketches develop into larger pieces and oil paintings in the studio.
This practice has allowed me access to unique environments over my career from the Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament, backstage access to the 'King and I' musical at the London Palladium, Sadlers Wells Theatre and Ronnie Scotts.
Of late this viewpoint has taken a step back as I am now looking to the specific place in the wider world. Looking to landscape, I am concerned with our managed environment and our continuing developmental relationship with the immediate environment.
Looking for rhythm and repetition in the environment around him, Glenn is inspired by Fractal Geometry drawn to cycles and synthesis in the rock formations of a landscape, the foliage of trees or in the rolling form of clouds.
He makes pen and ink sketches and mixed media drawings, which later evolve into oil paintings, celebrating the colour and wonder around us and how we as a species fit within it.
Glenn uses a synthetic palette creating bright, bold visions of the world but is concerned with the majesty of our natural environment, mans management of it, our National Heritage and history.
With an increasing detachment and disregard from the world around us, Glenn forces the real world back before audiences to appreciate once more. He particularly likes the way a canvas freezes a moment yet allows space for his reaction and emotion to be thrust upon an audience.
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🎨 Artwork by Glenn Badham
