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Bruno Diaz is a London-based artist whose paintings navigate the slippages between abstraction and figuration. In this Artist Insights film, he shares how his painting practice is rooted in drawing, how colour and the properties of pigments lie at the heart of his work, and why he admires artists who aren’t afraid to call themselves painters.

0:00 “I think painting is an imagined space, and you are always asking your audience to believe in it”
0:24 “All good paintings have tension”
1:20 Introduction
1:37 “The Royal Drawing School gave me the stimulation to feel what I was making had purpose”
2:16 “Colour is everything”
2:46 “I have started giving distemper a go”
3:24 “God, I’m letting you in on all my secrets now”
4:26 “I stay away from a lot of white because it sucks the pigment out of other colours”
4:54 “I can’t live without Phthalo Green and I hate Prussian Blue”
5:27 “I think my paintings, at heart, are rooted in a strict relationship with drawing”
6:41 “It's always important for me to never stay too attached to the first idea and to let the painting take its own direction”
7:27 “Text is kind of a curve ball, but for me, it's an autobiographical tool”
7:57 “The dogs are kind of a self-portrait – it’s a way of remaining anonymous but projecting myself onto them”
8:22 “I am interested in speed in painting, I am interested in the push and pull between fast and slow”
9:15 “I love the layering process of oils”
9:41 “I use Michael Harding oil paints – the pigmentation is so pure”
10:00 “There are things you want to confront but can’t, so you do it through painting”
10:46 “The chalkboard works were about the idea of a palimpsest”
11:53 “I like work that is unapologetically about painting”
12:49 “The death of painting allows you to be quite radical”
13:15 “It was a really freeing time”
14:52 “To get into the zone, there is this kind of charade of expulsion”
16:02 “I could paint anywhere, I could paint upside down, I don’t mind”
17:10 “You can have a presence without a physical presence”
18:13 “Have a familiarity with your materials, a closeness to them”
19:32 Credits

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