Born in 1962, self-taught artist Michael Rees has lived and worked in Cornwall for the past thirty years. His atmospheric and psychologically provocative images of nameless figures in nondescript landscapes are brooding and bleak, yet at the same time suggestive of a darkly subversive wit. Rees’s range of working materials and his methodology have aspects in common with the artists who championed Outsider Art in the early twentieth century, such as Paul Klee and the Dada and Surrealist movements. His imagery is based on instinct and compulsion. Rees’s works are complex, stark and extraordinarily affecting.
Michael Rees has exhibited widely, his work can be found in public and private collections in the UK and internationally