Red Lipstick Crescent Moon Kiss Lip Shapes Painting Postcard

AOAP17M2   This is a rarely found specialist postcard of this painting by David Oates called Kiss that was part of an annual awards event with artist and painting identification on reverse which this award souvenir is unused and mint

David Oates concerns are serious and focused, both painterly and philosophical. There is a potent charge to his layered surfaces, which give a sense of illusionistic, inchoate space that is physical as well as metaphysical. Time and the cosmos are evoked, as are questions of our place within the matrix of the universe. The paintings in the Kiss series are made on bare, sized canvas to emphasise their physicality and allusion to industrial mass-production. Not only are a series of eclipses implied but also a relationship to the body, in the semblance of a spine and the emotive title. The dark red/grey Kiss 8 is an exception to the general run of this group, being made painstakingly from thinly built layers of glazed paint.