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About the book >.>.> Callum Innes’ project to tease out the nature of the painting process in an ongoing series of canvases is a remarkable philosophical achievement of some fifteen years’ endeavour it might be fair to propose that any artist who becomes entranced with the very substance of their medium can become bogged down in the cycle of analysis dynamic eliminations and deconstruction and could end up in blind alleys of quotidian irony. Callum Innes belongs to s group of Entish artists who continue to contribute to the dialogue of painting at a time when it is not the main focus of contemporary practice To the interested eye Innes’ paintings express a number of paradoxes in their complexity. They engage our bodies in their relationship to our scale but the surface of the Resonance series for example is impossible to look at in one gaze. We have to move back and forth to look at ther detailed and dappled surfaces. We can also see spatial depth contrasted with flat geometric structure in a number of series. Whilst works in all series appear to have a gravity or stillness they simultaneously hamess the energy of the vertical intense colour or texture causing the paintind surface to expand dynamically in terms of the architectural drama inherent in the painting All of innies’ paintings propose construction and shatraction in the same register of looking The Exposed Painting series in particular presents a utopian punty which has subsequently subverted by the imperfect behaviour of the painterly process. (LL)