Slow Painting

by Helen Westgeest

"The abundance of images in our everyday lives- and the speed at which they are consumed seems to have left us unable to critique them. To rectify this situation, artists such as Daniel Richter and Artur Zmijewski have demonstrated that painting is brilliantly equipped to produce 'slow images' that enable, encourage and reward reflection. Here, Helen Westgeest attempts to understand how various forms of slow painting can be used as tools to interrogate the visual mediations we encounter daily. Painting was expected to disappear in the digital age, but through interactive painting...