Richard Moon

(b 1971, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Basingstoke)

Richard Moon's paintings explore the way that nostalgia alters the factual recollection of memory; clouding it with selective interpretations and ultimately; distortions of truth. Largely painted in the somber black and white hues of vintage photography; they hint at certain periods of history. Other subjects include broken porcelain figures; hybrid creatures with human heads; still life's with subtle but incongruous gothic motifs sewn into the table cloth; skull. All these subjects weave their way through historical; mythological and political implications; questioning the very notion of truth and whether we can ever really be certain of a concrete; stable reality.