Azure Dreaming

High in the hills above Villefranche-sur-Mer, on the French Riviera, sits the view behind Azure Dreaming — one of the places Tom Butler keeps coming back to.

Look closely and you'll find an infinity pool worked into the collage — the kind you spot again and again along this coast — and, tucked into the scene, an impressionist painter at work. A painting within a painting.

Azure Dreaming is part of Tom's Summer Collection, worked in his signature mixed-media collage style — paint and found material layered together, not applied in sequence.

"Being challenged daily and discovering new and exciting ways of pushing boundaries keeps me motivated. My mixed media landscapes have something to say, which I like to express with collage and typography."

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Butler creates this narrative with an expert use of characterisation; the people that occupy his scenes, a stylised representation of society that has often been compared to L.S. Lowry, are complemented and modernised with Butler’s collages.His inclusion of newspaper text, slogans, statements or a single word, adds a depth and intrigue that keeps the audience hooked.This murmur from the artist, a quiet commentary accompanying the scene itself can be likened to the hum of the city, the gentle chatter of a metropolis. With this, Butler brings an essence of the City onto our walls and into our homes.