Tom Solty explores the effects of zooming in and out by combining classical and contemporary painting techniques. The overlapping of authorial photographs and found images reinforces the contrast in the sublimated representation of flora and fauna, while the urban context is unfocused.
Solty’s recent works are oil paintings on canvas with a reference to classical landscapes in the mix with contemporary techniques such as Airbrush or Spray gun, as well as close-ups from objects or insects which somehow connect the twilight zone between the natural and the artificial.
From his periods spent in the city and in the countryside, Tom Solty brings back fragments of life between places. On walks in remote regions, the direction is pointed toward that which flourishes. Vertical compositions exalt nature in the details of all its mystical perfection, from the crystalline drizzle on the berries to the flowers that bloom only in spring.
The sharpness delineated in the butterflies’ wings and the leaves of the botanical species brings the complex cycles of nature closer, while the blur of the urban landscape distances the metropolis. The keen lines of the thorns attract us, while the glass, blurred by a thin layer of oil paint applied with the airbrush, disconnects and distances the Mimosas.