Howard Griffin Gallery

Today I visited the Howard Griffin Gallery because I wanted to visit the works of Thierry Noir someone who uses a lot of bold colours in his paintings. This is something I want my book to be in style if and although his work features cartoon like images the contrasting colours and bold lines really inspire me to achieve something similar. The gallery itself was something I was not expecting the two floors mirrored the style of the work including the walls and TVs into the spaces around the hung paintings. Thierry Noir painted the Berlin Wall and having the hanging space being the same stone like textures it felt very stripped back and meaning from the paintings shone through further. Having been to Berlin a couple of weeks ago it was good to see more of his work having briefly seeing his work there.

The bold designs all resemble this human like figure which seems to bends in weird ways making them appear to be cartoon like and un human in a way. I love the bold contrasting colours on the simple backgrounds of flat colours. The black lines around the paintings rather than tones of colour are unique in style and makes the painting feel more of a cartoon style than a pop art feel to them. They are very striking as they are big paintings that fill a lot of the wall and I can see how they would have made the Berlin wall feel more bright and colourful.