"Ceiling
painting
on the grandest of scale flourished throughout Catholic Europe the 17th
and 18th centuries. For cathedrals it became a form of instructional
cinema whereby the 'volume' of the scriptures could be amplified by
these enormous scenes depicting the pathway to salvation. Within
palaces, mythology and genetic heroics could adorn banqueting halls.
Of all the themes, 'The Apotheosis' proved to be the most challenging
because they involved hundreds of figures seeking divination. My
paintings are collages of this era, a form of baroque quilt that
reconstructs hybrids of my favourite artists and architectural spaces.
This may not be reality, but it is the parking spot next to it."
- Wayne Brookes 2009
