Carnival on Monday with Tom 200x120cm Mixed media on canvas 2014 The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event that has taken place in London since 1966 on the streets of Notting Hill, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is led by members of the British West Indian community, and attracts around one million people annually, making it one of the world s largest street festivals, and a significant event in British culture. Carnival on Monday, with Tom and Carnival on Monday, with Myself reflect the Artist s fascination with and experiences at London s Notting Hill Carnival. Beneath the unpredictability of the city s weather, a multicultural crowd of revellers are shown dancing on East Row in Kensal Rise by the Aba Shanti-I sound system, an area of the carnival that the artist visits each year with friends. The artist describes this as his favourite weekend in London, reinforcing his fascination with people, culture and festive time.
Mosquitos 150x100cm Acrylic paint, oil paint, ink, organic bees wax, organic shea butter, organic cocoa butter, sand and salt on canvas. 2017
Brams Nine Night 200x140cm Mixed media on canvas 2017 A Nine Night, also known as a Dead Yard, is a funerary tradition practiced in the Caribbean. It is an extended wake that lasts for several days, with roots in African religious tradition. This painting, made in Jamaica, shows events at a relative s nine night in Portland, Jamaica. The painting shows the artist s family and friends dancing and singing in the street, outside Bram s house. Snakes are shown lurking in a basket above a speaker box. Later that night, Deans was followed home by a man who later broke into the house in which the artist and his family slept. Family members inside were woken by the intruder and chased hm out from the house. Brams Nine Night was painting in Jamaica, shortly after and depecting the night s events.
St Thomas, Jamaica 1 140x190cm Acrylic paint, oil paint, ink, gloss paint, organic bees wax, organic shea butter, organic cocoa butter, sunflower oil, sand and clay from Prospect, St.Thomas, on canvas. 2017 Tapestry is an ancient technique of weaving. The pattern is woven in blocks of coloured weft thread which are then beaten down very tightly on the warp threads, producing a picture or pattern. In this series of works the artists describes how each canvas can be seen as the weaving together of things found, collected and experienced. This series of works seeks to explore the physical and cultural qualities of places through investigation and observation. With each canvas incorporating elements which have been taken away from places the artist has visited, the works reflect the sensitivity of place and are responsive to the environments which they depict. The Tapestry series is interested in an idea of context that seeks to understand the deeper cultural situation of a place, into which an appropriate response is woven into the canvas. It is a way of working which grounds the works both in the place and in the ideas. The series explores the artist s interest in the relationship between form and matter, and a strong belief in a way of working that is direct and unpretentious. The works is informed by history and memory whilst being contemporary and forward thinking.
Grey 150x100cm Mixed media on canvas 2013 Private Collection.
Tyrone Deans is a London-born artist. Born in 1988, his paintings can be seen as a kind of urban abstract expressionism, deeply rooted in his responses towards growing up in London. The artist s work can be recognised by his intuitive, vehement use of colour and the way in which he often scribes into his canvases, embedding my anecdotes into the paint. Heavily influenced by his life in South London, his unique painterly technique; thick textured paints overworked with charcoal, chalk, oilbar and other mediums, often applied onto canvas or paper, frequently tell stories of his life as a Black British male growing up in the inner city. Tyrone s multi-layered paintings communicate his own painterly language, whilst being inspired by Basquiat, El-Salahi, Lowry, Monet, Ritchter, Rothko, Serra and Twombly