A swirling vortex of colouration, a visual maelstrom of compositional excellence, an ever decreasing circle of creative engineering, there’s an elevational compassion and visceral disposition found in respected contemporary figurative artist, Fletcher Sibthorp’s most recent visual translation.

Having being visibly and emotively inspired by the pirouetting of a ballerina, lost in her art, deep in the throes of her passion for dance and her insatiable desire to achieve the ultimate, talked about performance, ‘Arched Back’ is a towering, glistening, illustratively enveloping piece of engendered substance which talks to us in reds, yellows and combative flesh tones, sinew and tissue and muscle and form in perfect harmony.

Sibthorp’s bold and clever swathes and swatches of blacks, greys and solid neutrals create this full tilt effect, this break neck speed of movement and performance excess that so grabs and inspires from the moment your gaze falls upon the vibrant and vivacious subject matter at the crux of the study.