Luke Roberts

BA (Hons) Fine Art


The human condition is defined as: ‘the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence’. Within my practice I aim to explore the human condition through the depiction of both the inner emotional ego and the outer physical experiences of life.

As explained by psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu: “…The skin is a screen and a filter, it is also the medium of passage and exchange, with the attendant possibility of violent reversal or rupture”. (Anzieu, 1989)

My work aims to present paint as flesh; through it’s materiality, I enrich the viscosity of paint and explore skin tonality through fleshy tones so to heighten the physical experience of skin. By stripping back the idea of skin as a surface, the paintings now become an exploration into the physical tactility of flesh, and how it is an envelope that contains all that we are.
The tangibility of the work speaks to the viewer; they should feel as if they could reach into the depiction and grab the flesh within it, as well as actively wanting to do so.


…The skin is a screen and a filter, it is also the medium of passage and exchange, with the attendant possibility of violent reversal or rupture”. (Anzieu, 1989)

Nod fy ngwaith yw cyflwyno paent fel petai’n gnawd; drwy ei fateroldeb rwyf yn cyfoethogi gludedd paent ac yn archwilio graddliwiau’r croen er mwyn mwyhau’r profiad ffisegol o groen. Drwy grafu nôl y syniad o groen fel arwyneb, daw’r paentiadau bellach yn ymchwiliad i hydeimledd ffisegol cnawd, a sut mae’n amlen sy’n cynnwys popeth yr ydym.
Mae natur gyffyrddadwy y gwaith yn siarad â’r gwylwyr; dylen nhw deimlo y gallen nhw estyn i mewn i’r portread a chael gafael ar y cnawd y tu mewn iddo, yn ogystal â bod am wneud hynny mewn ffordd weithredol.

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Cerys Powell

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Lauren Robins

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Aimee-Victoria Penny

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Leigh Hedd Roberts

Leigh Hedd Roberts

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Erin Donnelly

Erin Donnelly

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