Tobias Ross-Southall presents a new series of large scale watercolours Nuevos Animales, produced whilst on his residency in Puebla, Mexico.

The paintings are defined by dynamic minimalist forms and expressive brush work, containing fields of washed out and bleeding monochromatic colour on raw canvas. These figurative shapes become abstract, ethereal and uncanny.

The artist explores notions of mortality, melancholy and love.  He discusses themes of artificial intelligence and the future of our place in this new world.  These emotional experiences are rendered as both powerful and vulnerable.

Nuevos Animales I, 2022
Watercolour on raw canvas
210 x 160cm

Nuevos Animales II, 2022
Watercolour on raw canvas
160 x 210cm

Nuevos Animales III, 2022
Watercolour on raw canvas
100 x 150cm

Nuevos Animales IV, 2022
Watercolour on raw canvas
150 x 100cm

Nuevos Animales VI, 2022
Watercolour, oil, floor cleaner
and bleach on raw canvas
160 x 210cm

Studio view, 2022
Puebla, Mexico