Uncover the haunting work of rising artist Charlie Gosling

Since graduating from Camberwell School of Arts in 2023, Charlie Gosling has established a particular painterly type. His luscious mark-makings and evocative portraits, triggering comparisons to Auerbach and de Kooning, reference the historic artwork canon, however Gosling’s intimate and direct works are very a lot his personal.

In his second exhibition at London’s Incubator gallery, Good Luck with Me Right here, Gosling considers these closest to him. Like Lucien Freud, his forged of topics are populated by family and friends. ‘I like portray folks I do know, it permits you each to see them in a different way. I usually paint folks I like. That’s what I’m after – capturing that admiration,’ says Gosling.

His course of digs into this intimacy. In distinction to his earlier works, which noticed him layer paint with a tangible thickness, Gosling is right here stripping it again, making use of and scraping away layers of paint to create residing works that are nearly summary of their swirls of color and magnificence. ‘I don’t see scraping as discount however including to the portray,’ he says. ‘It doesn’t have an effect on how I see a sitter, but it surely does take extra time as I usually scrape and add the paint a number of occasions. It’s nothing greater than a method. Some work are extra scraped than others for varied causes, and problem with the portray itself. It’s not based mostly on the sitter.’

Gosling’s faces confront the viewer. Working from each pictures and life, Gosling is looking for the essence of the individual, in a bodily course of which takes form on the canvas. ‘I see work via work. Auerbach and Cezanne have been each impressed by Rembrandt. De Kooning was impressed by Soutine. Soutine was impressed by Cezanne. I like what Auerbach mentioned – when a portray leaves the studio it’s “a brand new species of residing factor”. I attempt to not get too influenced by different painters’ work.’