If you thinked I winked, I did - Khairullah Rahim

This exhibition is held from 31st July to 31st August 2015 at Fost Gallery over at Gillman Barracks.

He presented (I think) about 11 paintings, with one big 3m center show piece.

You can read his various interviews and reviews on the Fost website, Blouin Art, ArtHop and ......

My thoughts would be he has done good this time.  Definitely a move on from his earlier series and technical improvement too. He definitely has things to say with his art and says it confidently.

However, he still has room for improvement. To prevent himself from being thrown into the pop art genre he needs to hone his painterly skills. Think more about the brush strokes, colours, equilibrium, balance of the painting. In the way a good abstract artist works the painting. Especially that of balance,  To quote from Rudolf Arnhem's book, " Why should artists strive for balance?  Our answer this far has been that by stabilising the interrelations between the various forces in a visual system the artist makes his statement unambiguous. Going a step further, we realise that man strives for equilibrium in all phases of his physical and mental existence  and that this same tendency can be observed not only in all organic life,but also in physical systems", "balance remains the final goal of any wish to be fulfilled, any task to be accomplished, any problem to be solved"

Having understood this, then the artist can understand the active counter principle of dynamism/ dynamics.  " only by looking at the interaction between the energetic life force and the tendency toward balance can we reach a fleet conception of the dynamics activating the human mind and reflected in the mind's products".

Why did I quote this jibber jabber? Because apart from the biggest 3m and penguin piece, the balance with the other bigger pieces are not quite there. Not horribly wrong, it's just that I exact higher standards from him.

I am rooting for him and if he continues painting to resolve these issues. He will have arrived.  But he needs to paint more, not for show but for practice.

I believe he is working with other media too and am glad to hear that.

Points for collectors: Strong buy. Think the penguin was the best piece and has been sold.  A few others have also been sold too. Keep watching him, I think he has exciting things lined up.