Luc Goidadin, painter and multidisciplinary artist

Luc Goidadin is an artist and Creative Director based in Somerset and working in London and Seoul.

He studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art in London and pursued a career in Fashion, working at Thierry Mugler, Maxmara, Burberry, Smythson and Daks. Luc created sci-fi cartoons as a young child and maintained a continuous private drawing and painting practice in parallel to his design career.

His practice focuses on figurative painting and drawing. It chronicles the tragicomedy of human existence with all its ludicrous contradictions and daily humiliations. At times, Luc plays with physical distortions and emotional hyperbole to convey the visceral unease of our shared experiences. At others, pious serenity masks sinister undercurrents and hidden motives. Threateningly bright and colourful, the world Luc creates is a muddle of cockeyed perspectives and improbable landscapes, part flawed Eden, part psychological wasteland.

Luc’s favours the intense pigmentation and smooth finish of Japanese Gouache which he combines with acrylic paint, ink and watercolour. Luc uses paper and linen canvas, for their organic warmth and compliance with paint. He alternates these with acetate and aluminium panels, which offer a colder and unyielding surface.

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