Alan McGowan

Your paintings have always fascinated me. Both for the free yet precise way you capture the human body - and for the psychological depth of your paintings. What comes first: mind or muscle? They are interwoven with each other - the figure has muscle but that can only be apprehended by me through mind, through my perception and understanding; and the subject has mind but that is only realised in the painting through my muscle, the physical movement of the hand through paint or whatever materials I’m working with....