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I finally went to Tate Britain this week to see two back to back exhibitions I’ve been meaning to visit for weeks. English artists Patrick Caulfied and Gary Hume. Patrick Caulfield‘s work appears to belong to the world of pop art. His bold canvases of his early work uses flat colour and simple lines to depict banal scenes of everyday objects and interior spaces, but it is in this simplicity that the mood is created. His later pieces incorporate photo realism into his early style, making the artwork look more like collage and mix media from afar.

Gary Hume works with enamel and gloss paint on aluminium, Similar to Patrick Caulfield is his use of flat colour, but the differences are the forms are organic, more abstract and instead of black outlines he uses relief giving a bit of texture to the flat paint.

I like the contrast and similarities of the two exhibitions. For me they work well together.