Sam Lock is a British abstract painter whose visceral, layered works explore memory, time, and the beauty of transformation. Through a process of building up and eroding material, he creates surfaces that bear the traces of both creation and decay.
Originally from London, Lock studied Fine Art and Art History at the University of Edinburgh, where he received his MA in 1997. Now based near Brighton, he works with an array of unconventional tools—blowtorches, sanders, and brushes—to shape paintings that are as much excavations as they are constructions, revealing the tension between permanence and impermanence.
Originally from London, Lock studied Fine Art and Art History at the University of Edinburgh, where he received his MA in 1997. Now based near Brighton, he works with an array of unconventional tools—blowtorches, sanders, and brushes—to shape paintings that are as much excavations as they are constructions, revealing the tension between permanence and impermanence.
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