Vyvyan Hope-Scott

“I try to create depth within an essentially two-dimensional language; opening a window onto some landscape beyond”

Abstract, but often suggesting architectural forms, landscape and abandoned engineering, Vyvyan’s powerful images are rooted in twentieth century art but shaped by personal observation. Using the stark drama of black and white or rich earthy tones infused with iron powder, each painting features slightly skewed bold geometric shapes to create real depth and tension: they feel like portals into a place where strength and fragility, construction and corrosion are present in a kind of natural balance.

 Exploring his home city of Bristol, Vyvyan finds evocative source material in areas such as the old docks, where apparently unyielding metal structures are succumbing to time and the elements, displaying a delicacy in decay far removed from their original purpose. Massive oak piles left to rot in the River Avon meanwhile are acquiring gently fluid curves as they age.

Vyvyan is both a visual artists and composer, so there is inevitably some subtle interplay between disciplines and his sources of inspiration. His work is regularly selected for the Royal West of England Academy Annual Open Show, and he has exhibited at a number of Bristol galleries.