{"title":"Sam Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBA Fine Art, Falmouth University, 2015\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected for the 2023 RSA Annual Exhibition. Sam Wood paints scenes from everyday life on oil on wood panel – the people and architecture of Newcastle rendered with close attention. His process of layering, scraping and wiping creates a productive tension between abstraction and realism, between the observed and the half-remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy work is rooted in everyday surroundings – the people and buildings of Newcastle. I layer, scrape and wipe to find the image: a process of discovery that holds abstraction and realism in productive tension.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/0135\/2524\/collections\/Sam_1f61fa8da117c2d9dec056d8a99bbd9a.webp?v=1783589811","url":"https:\/\/www.newbloodart.com\/collections\/sam-wood.oembed","provider":"New Blood Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}