PHIL MAXWELL

Mystery Woman In The Mystery

November 30, 2023

This work combines two images. One of a woman walking along Brick Lane in London in 1983 and another of the Mystery Park in Liverpool.

The ghostly park with its colourful surreal lighting provides a strangely welcoming environment for the woman photographed in black and white from the past. People will know doubt ask me what my favourite work is in my current exhibition. I normally reply, “I don’t have a favourite”. However if I were forced to choose one it would be the mystery woman in the mystery. I love her, possibly because I’ve been looking at her image for many decades.

‘Mystery woman in the Mystery’ – mixed media on canvas.

‘Mystery woman in the Mystery’ – mixed media on canvas (detail).

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World Streets (24)

November 29, 2023

Outside the ‘Brick House’. Brick Lane 2008.

Flooded street in Dhaka. Bangladesh 1990s.

Three on a motorcycle in Hanoi. Vietnam 2019.

Transporting tyres in Dhaka. Bangladesh 1990s.

Walking into the street. Marrakech 2005.

Having a smoke outside a pub on Commercial Street. East London 2006.

Transporting goods on a cart in Chittagong. Bangladesh 2008.

Under The Bridge On Brick Lane

November 28, 2023

This image was derived from a photograph I took of a woman as she walked under the railway bridge in Brick Lane. It was published in my book of the same name. To make this image I first printed the photograph on a piece of old paper from a bible printed in 1860. I then worked on the image using acrylic wash and chalk.