Thomas Gillant's work is characterised by gestural abstraction, digital aesthetics and visual perception. Using oils with spray guns, brushes and rollers, he works on recurring themes such as mark-making within three-dimensional space and the relationship between the manual and the digital.

Spatial voids and uncanny pictorial dimensionality are recurring subjects of fascination for the artist. Reflections, artificial shadows and iridescent colors are used as many visual tricks to challenge the viewer’s perception. Yet, the bold brush marks, the sculptural carvings, the saturated hues of dripping oil paint, all have an expressive accent that calls on the full attention of our senses. Toying with optical and painterly effects, his work rides on the tension between the illusion of three-dimensional depth and the objecthood of the paintings.


トマ・ジランの作品は、ジェスチャーによる抽象表現、デジタルな美学、色のバイブレーションを特徴としています。スプレーガン、ブラシ、ローラーなど様々な道具を使い、油絵具を使用します。三次元空間におけるマークメイキングや、ハンドペインティングとデジタル創作の関係性など、繰り返し扱われるテーマを探求しています。

ギャラリーという環境の中で、反射、人工的な陰影、玉虫色の色彩などを視覚的なトリックとして使い、鑑賞者の絵画に対する知覚を刺激します。色彩と奥行きを実験することにより、即座な視覚的インパクトを表現します。

“I like using a blend of additive and reductive painting techniques, spraying several layers of paints and erasing some partially until the result has a sense of depth reminiscent of a photograph or a digital image. A dimensionality which isn’t really there when you look closer. The brush marks and the casting shadows both affirm and contradict the illusion of depth. It's an interplay between virtual representation and tangible physicality”.