An avowed master of contemporary history painting for over three decades, Dexter Dalwood translates real-world events into imagined and composite landscapes, furthering the language and narratives of his chosen medium, while acknowledging the weight of all that has come before. An acute understanding and referencing of past artistic genres has recently given way to a style all his own: one that evades figurative tropes, in favour of uninhabited and uncertain spatial concerns, shifting scales and compressed picture planes.

In the words of the Artist: "While living close to the Avenida de la Reforma in 2022 in Mexico City, I was in an apartment that had a Crittal steel window frame - the frames that became the look of Modernist windows into the twentieth century. The painting was thinking of La Reforma and its history as a road and a political movement within Mexico City and echoed the reflective lights from the neon-illuminated Torre Mayor skyscraper during the rainy season."

An avowed master of contemporary history painting for over three decades, Dexter Dalwood translates real-world events into imagined and composite landscapes, furthering the language and narratives of his chosen medium, while acknowledging the weight of all that has come before. An acute understanding and referencing of past artistic genres has recently given way to a style all his own: one that evades figurative tropes, in favour of uninhabited and uncertain spatial concerns, shifting scales and compressed picture planes.

In the words of the Artist: "While living close to the Avenida de la Reforma in 2022 in Mexico City, I was in an apartment that had a Crittal steel window frame - the frames that became the look of Modernist windows into the twentieth century. The painting was thinking of La Reforma and its history as a road and a political movement within Mexico City and echoed the reflective lights from the neon-illuminated Torre Mayor skyscraper during the rainy season."

An avowed master of contemporary history painting for over three decades, Dexter Dalwood translates real-world events into imagined and composite landscapes, furthering the language and narratives of his chosen medium, while acknowledging the weight of all that has come before. An acute understanding and referencing of past artistic genres has recently given way to a style all his own: one that evades figurative tropes, in favour of uninhabited and uncertain spatial concerns, shifting scales and compressed picture planes.

In the words of the Artist: "While living close to the Avenida de la Reforma in 2022 in Mexico City, I was in an apartment that had a Crittal steel window frame - the frames that became the look of Modernist windows into the twentieth century. The painting was thinking of La Reforma and its history as a road and a political movement within Mexico City and echoed the reflective lights from the neon-illuminated Torre Mayor skyscraper during the rainy season."

An avowed master of contemporary history painting for over three decades, Dexter Dalwood translates real-world events into imagined and composite landscapes, furthering the language and narratives of his chosen medium, while acknowledging the weight of all that has come before. An acute understanding and referencing of past artistic genres has recently given way to a style all his own: one that evades figurative tropes, in favour of uninhabited and uncertain spatial concerns, shifting scales and compressed picture planes.

In the words of the Artist: "While living close to the Avenida de la Reforma in 2022 in Mexico City, I was in an apartment that had a Crittal steel window frame - the frames that became the look of Modernist windows into the twentieth century. The painting was thinking of La Reforma and its history as a road and a political movement within Mexico City and echoed the reflective lights from the neon-illuminated Torre Mayor skyscraper during the rainy season."

An avowed master of contemporary history painting for over three decades, Dexter Dalwood translates real-world events into imagined and composite landscapes, furthering the language and narratives of his chosen medium, while acknowledging the weight of all that has come before. An acute understanding and referencing of past artistic genres has recently given way to a style all his own: one that evades figurative tropes, in favour of uninhabited and uncertain spatial concerns, shifting scales and compressed picture planes.

In the words of the Artist: "While living close to the Avenida de la Reforma in 2022 in Mexico City, I was in an apartment that had a Crittal steel window frame - the frames that became the look of Modernist windows into the twentieth century. The painting was thinking of La Reforma and its history as a road and a political movement within Mexico City and echoed the reflective lights from the neon-illuminated Torre Mayor skyscraper during the rainy season."