Petit Pois | Miles Hall
2 - 24 December 2020
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Miles Hall's latest exhibition PETIT POIS.
Hall is an Australian born artist, though currently resides in Montpelier, France. His recent series of work titled 'Petit Pois' translates to 'the little green pea' and makes reference to the fairytale of the Princess and the Pea.
Miles states in an interview with Louis Martin Chew:
“As I started making this work in April 2020, we went into confinement. And the paintings became something very different. At their base is the idea of layering. The image is the result of embedded layering and this is where the story of the princess and the pea – the green pea – comes in. I always loved the Hans Christian Anderson tale of the twenty mattresses with the pea at the bottom because, in a painting, the underpainting, the first few marks and impressions have a way of coming all the way through and manifesting themselves on the surface.”