ADRIAN WISZNIEWSKI: Day Break, The Changeling and other works

Adrian Wiszniewski is one of the most active of the Glasgow Boys of the 1980s. His ambitious work creates dream-like images that take us through the looking glass and into a world that is just a rabbit hole away.

These eight paintings reflect the scale of Wiszniewski’s ambition. ‘Day Break’ conjures the opening up of a world (‘Nightfall,’ painted the year before, in lockdown, illustrated its confinement,) ‘Couple,’ ‘Boy with Flora’ and ‘Girl in the Mirror’ suggest inner intimacies while ‘Shepherds’ is a pastoral scene set somewhere familiar, but still at the same time removed, in another Actururian world. Wiszniewski’s experimentation goes beyond his subject matter. Even the mediums he uses remain fresh. ‘When the Parrot Left the Room,’ he tells me, was painted using oil on canvas, but applied with cotton buds.