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"When I started this series I had no idea where it would take me, I only knew that I’d had a shock of recognition of seeing something of myself when I made that first painting. Eventually the Painter Man series would become a platform for telling a story about the dual lives as a painter, the struggle between my day job and my art, and how I was being shaped by that struggle."
 
Briggs employs the tools of the trade in his work: his used drop covers, alkyd house paint, tape, plaster and plaster weld – a substance that adheres plaster to drywall. For Briggs, choosing to work with these materials is, in itself, redemptive in nature.
 
Painter Man will be accompanied by a catalogue with an essay written by Matt Freedman. As Freedman writes in the essay, “The gift bestowed on the artist who makes the decision to shake free of his own conventions and precedents is a body of work generated from lived experience that no other artist on the face of the earth could produce.” Amen to that!

catalog essay by Matt Freedman (PDF)