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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · 12d

Oil painting in progress 24x18

#surrealism #human #darkart #surrealpainting #painting #art #surreal #horror #oilpainting

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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · Aug 25

Oil painting 24x18in

#surrealism #oilpainting #painting #art #surreal #darksurrealism #human

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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · Jun 19

A digital painting that I've been considering turning into an oil painting.

#surrealism #digitalpainting #surrealart #human #inner #psychology #surreal #dark #dystopia #art

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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · May 11

Digital painting.

#surreal #digitalpainting #art #surrealism #abstract #horror #human

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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · May 10

Oil painting 25x16in
Still working on this one. It represents an ambiguity between motion and stillness, a mental will or freedom of thought, juxtaposed against its environment. Moving yet remaining.

#surrealism #darksurrealism #mind #control #freedom #thought #oilpainting #painting #surreal

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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · May 9

Rough digital painting. Close-up.

#surreal #digitalpainting #surrealism #horror #darkart #human #art

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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · May 9

Oil painting 36x24in

"That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of a presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window." - Jean Baudrillard

#surrealism #oilpainting #art #semiotics #surreal #human

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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · Apr 23

Oil painting on aluminium 25x16in

#surrealism #darksurrealism #abstract #art #oilpainting #painting #darkart #surreal #human

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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · Apr 7

Oil painting. Work in progress.
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#surrealism #oilpainting #art #surreal #apocalyptic #postapocalyptic #surreal #freedom #control #painting

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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · Feb 22

'The Ambiguity of Freedom' - Oil painting on aluminium 25x15in. This one portrays the idea of unfreedom presented as freedom.

#oilpainting #surrealism #art #freedom #control #painting #surreal #apocalyptic

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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · Jan 24

'Decoys' - Oil Painting 24x18in
The figures are suspended in a heightened reality, with which they find themselves in a taut relationship, hypnotised by what is just beyond reach.

#surrealism #oilpainting #painting #surreal #apocalyptic #postapocalyptic #darksurrealism #art #human #dystopia

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leighwhurr.bsky.social @leighwhurr.bsky.social · Dec 31

'The Ambiguity of Language' - Oil painting 24x18

#surrealism #oilpainting #art #surreal #painting #surrealart

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