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'The Fabulists' (2011) £7,200.00

19.5" x 15.75"

VAT/ex VAT	GBP	Euro	USD
ex VAT	£6,000.00(ex.vat)	€6,840.00(ex.vat)	$9,840.00(ex.vat)
VAT	£7,200.00	€8,208.00	$11,808.00

(* US Dollar and Euro prices are approximations only)

'The Fabulists' (2011)

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Oil on linen
Signed by the artist

six foot person & work to scale

Lex Thomas

1972

Taking nostalgia and utopia as her starting point, Lex Thomas evokes iconic landscapes, often imitating the work of well-known artists such as Hayman, Zoffany and Gainsborough. By creating miniature facsimiles of Eighteenth Century paintings, Lex Thomas is acknowledging and playing with issues of the original and the copy. Her ‘authentic replicas’ toy with ideas of reality and artifice and Lex Thomas demonstrates a fascination with the history of painting while exploring her place within our digital age.

In her own words, Lex Thomas’ paintings are 'obsessively detailed to create an atmosphere of ‘Futuristic Nostalgia’. This dystopian world has been termed ‘Notopia™’ by Thomas, where surreal hybrid creatures populate a lost paradise, stripping down familiar ideals and presenting a virtual landscape. Thomas explores fragments of narrative and a shifting of time where once mythical creatures become genetically modified in a retro-futuristic collision of science and nature. A disturbing atmosphere of anthropomorphism and pseudo-science permeates while an injection of wry satirical humour acts as a relief to these themes.

Lex Thomas has described herself as someone with a love/hate relationship with technology. She combines traditional techniques and computerized imagery, whilst also parodying man as machine. Thomas is particularly interested in the writings of Baudrillard, who describes this state so acerbically; where all is surface and style without substance and we are virtually disabled without our machines. It’s a paradigm that suggests that in technologically advanced postmodern culture our consciousness is unable to distinguish reality from fantasy.

Lex Thomas has been working as a professional fine artist since graduating from a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at Chelsea College in 2007. From a background in Television graphics and Animation that led to BAFTA and Royal Television Society awards, Thomas has participated in various group exhibitions in the UK, including at the Royal Academy and Orleans House Gallery in London, as well as in Europe and the States. Lex Thomas was also shortlisted for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Art Prize. She also has work in private collections in the UK, USA and Germany.

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