'Whispering Stone' by Joseph Dilnot
'Whispering Stone'
25.5 x 20 cm
Oil on Paper
2024
£400
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Joseph Dilnot (b.1997, Brighton, UK) lives and works in East Sussex, UK. After finishing school in 2015, Dilnot pursued painting and studied independently. In 2019, he received the Newman Young Artist and RosePaul scholarships to study at The Essential School of Painting in London. He has exhibited in galleries and institutions including: Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK; Glyndebourne, E.Sussex, UK; Mepaintsme, USA; Weald Contemporary, Sussex, UK; Blue Shop Gallery, London, UK; Lido Stores, Margate, UK.
Dilnot’s work is held in various private collections internationally. Informed by a personal mythology, literature, historical research and a deep connection to his local landscape, the lyrical paintings of Joseph Dilnot (b.1997) unfurl personal reflections and insights creating visual poems in which the earthly co-exists alongside enigmatic phenomena. Dilnot engages in detailed world building by suggestion, knowingly leaving gaps and mysteries as you might find in historical manuscripts, weathered and erased by time. He paints immersive landscapes such as hidden glades, living mountains, ethereal clouds bathed in rich, glowing colours. Figures walk in and out of these, sometimes half hidden or remaining on the edges of the scene, absorbed by the landscape. As in mythology, Dilnot invents hybrid creatures. Characters include archetypes such as exiles, strangers, adventurers, ghosts and lone travellers, navigating the enormity of the physical world whilst simultaneously engrossed in an insistent, internal drive to find answers to unknown questions. The paintings are inspired by a long standing love of the natural world and Dilnot having studied zoology. He views the world from this “creaturely”, mutable perspective and its existence alongside the human drama, vulnerable and unseen but determinedly attending to its own purpose. Within the painted scenes, ordinary objects like ladders, candles, abandoned shoes and hats seem to possess magical qualities with the potential to enable a transformative experience. The artist offers the anticipation of the event or the quiet absence of the aftermath. These metaphysical and spiritual quests, are the enablers of hope, personal liberation and enlightenment, assuaging grief and feelings of loss. Dilnot travels through time, imagined and historical. It is slowed down and quieted allowing space for rumination. It can find poetic form, in which the notion of infinity is condensed in an image suggesting all matter is eternally alive or resting. These allegories and fables, overlaid with gentle humour, are unique, revealed worlds which Dilnot invites to share with the viewer.
'Whispering Stone'
25.5 x 20 cm
Oil on Paper
2024
£400
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Joseph Dilnot (b.1997, Brighton, UK) lives and works in East Sussex, UK. After finishing school in 2015, Dilnot pursued painting and studied independently. In 2019, he received the Newman Young Artist and RosePaul scholarships to study at The Essential School of Painting in London. He has exhibited in galleries and institutions including: Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK; Glyndebourne, E.Sussex, UK; Mepaintsme, USA; Weald Contemporary, Sussex, UK; Blue Shop Gallery, London, UK; Lido Stores, Margate, UK.
Dilnot’s work is held in various private collections internationally. Informed by a personal mythology, literature, historical research and a deep connection to his local landscape, the lyrical paintings of Joseph Dilnot (b.1997) unfurl personal reflections and insights creating visual poems in which the earthly co-exists alongside enigmatic phenomena. Dilnot engages in detailed world building by suggestion, knowingly leaving gaps and mysteries as you might find in historical manuscripts, weathered and erased by time. He paints immersive landscapes such as hidden glades, living mountains, ethereal clouds bathed in rich, glowing colours. Figures walk in and out of these, sometimes half hidden or remaining on the edges of the scene, absorbed by the landscape. As in mythology, Dilnot invents hybrid creatures. Characters include archetypes such as exiles, strangers, adventurers, ghosts and lone travellers, navigating the enormity of the physical world whilst simultaneously engrossed in an insistent, internal drive to find answers to unknown questions. The paintings are inspired by a long standing love of the natural world and Dilnot having studied zoology. He views the world from this “creaturely”, mutable perspective and its existence alongside the human drama, vulnerable and unseen but determinedly attending to its own purpose. Within the painted scenes, ordinary objects like ladders, candles, abandoned shoes and hats seem to possess magical qualities with the potential to enable a transformative experience. The artist offers the anticipation of the event or the quiet absence of the aftermath. These metaphysical and spiritual quests, are the enablers of hope, personal liberation and enlightenment, assuaging grief and feelings of loss. Dilnot travels through time, imagined and historical. It is slowed down and quieted allowing space for rumination. It can find poetic form, in which the notion of infinity is condensed in an image suggesting all matter is eternally alive or resting. These allegories and fables, overlaid with gentle humour, are unique, revealed worlds which Dilnot invites to share with the viewer.
'Whispering Stone'
25.5 x 20 cm
Oil on Paper
2024
£400
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Joseph Dilnot (b.1997, Brighton, UK) lives and works in East Sussex, UK. After finishing school in 2015, Dilnot pursued painting and studied independently. In 2019, he received the Newman Young Artist and RosePaul scholarships to study at The Essential School of Painting in London. He has exhibited in galleries and institutions including: Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK; Glyndebourne, E.Sussex, UK; Mepaintsme, USA; Weald Contemporary, Sussex, UK; Blue Shop Gallery, London, UK; Lido Stores, Margate, UK.
Dilnot’s work is held in various private collections internationally. Informed by a personal mythology, literature, historical research and a deep connection to his local landscape, the lyrical paintings of Joseph Dilnot (b.1997) unfurl personal reflections and insights creating visual poems in which the earthly co-exists alongside enigmatic phenomena. Dilnot engages in detailed world building by suggestion, knowingly leaving gaps and mysteries as you might find in historical manuscripts, weathered and erased by time. He paints immersive landscapes such as hidden glades, living mountains, ethereal clouds bathed in rich, glowing colours. Figures walk in and out of these, sometimes half hidden or remaining on the edges of the scene, absorbed by the landscape. As in mythology, Dilnot invents hybrid creatures. Characters include archetypes such as exiles, strangers, adventurers, ghosts and lone travellers, navigating the enormity of the physical world whilst simultaneously engrossed in an insistent, internal drive to find answers to unknown questions. The paintings are inspired by a long standing love of the natural world and Dilnot having studied zoology. He views the world from this “creaturely”, mutable perspective and its existence alongside the human drama, vulnerable and unseen but determinedly attending to its own purpose. Within the painted scenes, ordinary objects like ladders, candles, abandoned shoes and hats seem to possess magical qualities with the potential to enable a transformative experience. The artist offers the anticipation of the event or the quiet absence of the aftermath. These metaphysical and spiritual quests, are the enablers of hope, personal liberation and enlightenment, assuaging grief and feelings of loss. Dilnot travels through time, imagined and historical. It is slowed down and quieted allowing space for rumination. It can find poetic form, in which the notion of infinity is condensed in an image suggesting all matter is eternally alive or resting. These allegories and fables, overlaid with gentle humour, are unique, revealed worlds which Dilnot invites to share with the viewer.