In Peter Doig\u2019s Two Trees (2017), an impressionistic, dreamlike depiction of three men silhouetted against a moonlit sea, the colourful diamond patterns, camouflage details and citrus shades of their clothing have an intense tactility. The 12ft-wide painting, idiosyncratically ambiguous in its setting, seems to hold secrets within its rich brushstrokes...
, two phantasmagorical figures, one in a Napoleonic jacket and the other in a ceremonial fur-trimmed coat, stand against a colourful brick wall and a starry midnight-blue sky. The work is inspired by a photograph of Doig and a friend in a crowd scene for Stravinsky’s Petrushka while working as dressers for the English National Opera in the 1980s. But it also resembles two moustachioed self-portraits.
The figures stand as gatekeepers to Doig’s dreamlike world, one which has been reinterpreted by Jones, as if they have walked through the foreground of its long green grass onto the runway. Like the layered pigments and wide-ranging references in Doig’s pieces, which span location, genre and time, so Jones is keen to delve even further into the artist’s otherworldly universe. ‘We’ve only just scratched the surface,’ he says.
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