Adelaide-based painter Robin Eley creates stunning artworks that appear as photographs at first glance.
Even after a second, more careful look, you may still be fooled into thinking that his hyper-real paintings are actually photographs.
Eley’s oil paintings on Belgian linen displays his technical mastery of the medium. Subtle variations in tone and the way he imitates the fall and reflection of light combines to produce an incredibly hyper-realistic effect.
His works, currently on exhibition at the Hill Smith Gallery, Australia, explores the “quasi-spiritual adoration of the material in modern life. How the acquisition of the temporary acts as a panacea for the anxieties of the eternal, and how these trinkets have been elevated from mere objects of desire to objects of veneration”.
[via Visual News and Hill Smith Gallery]