// HOLD MY HAND
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The paintings do not depict the specific but instead evoke internal states that resist fixed definition. I think of them as “democratic paintings,” where meaning emerges through the viewer’s perception.
Ultimately, the paintings ask: can shape, colour, and pattern themselves hold emotion?
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Hold my Hand
2026
Acrylic on Natural Linen
80 x 80 cm
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📸 @petesetbackstone
// FOR EVER AND EVER
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Diagnosed with cancer at five, I spent long periods in hospital, finding calm in observing patterns—tiles, curtains, window frames. In these moments, I looked for order within chaos, stability within flux. Returning to these forms becomes a meditation on how I inhabit the world, where observation and memory overlap…
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For Ever and Ever
2025
Acrylic on Natural Linen
100 x 100 cm
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📸 @petesetbackstone
// I MIGHT BE WRONG
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The painting and exhibition title I Might Be Wrong, taken from the Radiohead song of the same name, reflects personal uncertainty during my transition into professional practice over the past 18 months, alongside a wider sense of global instability…
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I Might be Wrong
2025
Acrylic on Natural Linen
70 x 100 cm
(SOLD)
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📸 @petesetbackstone
// I MIGHT BE WRONG
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Black Swan resident artist Pete Hempshall presents a new body of work exploring colour, pattern, and repetition as a means of reflection and emotional expression.
Working with acrylic on natural linen, his paintings begin with intuitive, meditative drawing. Through repetition, he develops a visual language shaped by memory—of colour, shape, and rhythm.
Balancing open and closed forms, the works evoke subtle internal states rather than fixed subjects. Described as “democratic paintings,” meaning emerges through the viewer’s perception.
Ultimately, the paintings ask: can shape, colour, and pattern hold emotion? Can repetition become a vessel for feeling? The work sits within this tension, seeking a visual dissonance that is both personal and collective.
Black Swan Arts : Round Tower
Exhibition dates : Saturday 2nd May - Friday 8th May / 10am - 4pm
Private View : Friday 1st May / 6 - 8pm
// THE SKY WAS PINK
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2025
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
(SOLD)
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Very pleased to have finally completed this larger work in my new studio @blackswanarts đź–¤
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