The story of how Popelier started his painting style, with links to the Painting Archive and Solo Exhibition details and photos from 1998 until the present day.
These are all the artworks that appeared in my first ever solo show, held at Poly Gone Cowboy, Brisbane, Australia in 2014. This was the first time to show a new development in my paintings of creating subtle textures by applying paint to the surface of the canvas that was covered with pieces of newspaper glued with wallpaper paste.
This series of paintings was the idea of a Japanese collector living in Ireland. He specifically wanted three paintings depicting 'evening', 'midnight' and 'morning'. These times of the day play an important part, due to different time zones, in his working life.