theEYE Gary Hume

Gary Hume makes beautiful paintings His materials are household paints on aluminium surfaces and his subjects he says are flora fauna and portraits The results are elegant delicate simple yet elusive and exquisite Playing gloriously with colour and light they are paintings of subtle tones idiosyncratic clashes and insistent reflections Interviewed in his studio Gary Hume reflects on his work from the 1980s when his Doors series won instant acclaim to his latest creations Illustrated in this profile are many of Gary Humes most notable paintings specially filmed in exhibitions in London and Dublin and in a major 2004 show in Bregenz Austria Also featured are the artists rarelyseen drawings and in contrasting settings his deadpan sculpture Snowman