Tony Hull makes paintings that are layered and textured and that are about texture. “The work is first and foremost about painting”; this seemingly simple statement puts the act of painting centre-stage. He takes elements of figurative representation and blends, transmutes and transforms them on the canvas. There’s a kind of alive, vital, brushstroke in Hull’s work, a love-affair with the lyrical potential of line and colour. In his recent works, images from ‘How To Do It’ manuals from the 60s, play a ‘hide and seek’ game within the visual texture of the paintings; fragments of time that emerge and submerge again.