Ian Hinley
Ian is an artist from North Yorkshire. He’s been painting in oils for over 20 years and he gave up his career in illustration to focus on his personal work full time 5 years ago. 2024 was a breakthrough year for Ian, when his monumental painting “Morpheus Among the Dreams” was displayed at Humber Street Gallery in Hull, the city where he now lives and works. Ian’s paintings focus on technique and the human figure, and he draws on a deep love of history, mythology, spirituality and religion, and his many other interests to approach dense themes as directly as possible through symbolic imagery.
Ian Hinley
Ian is an artist from North Yorkshire. He’s been painting in oils for over 20 years and he gave up his career in illustration to focus on his personal work full time 5 years ago. 2024 was a breakthrough year for Ian, when his monumental painting “Morpheus Among the Dreams” was displayed at Humber Street Gallery in Hull, the city where he now lives and works. Ian’s paintings focus on technique and the human figure, and he draws on a deep love of history, mythology, spirituality and religion, and his many other interests to approach dense themes as directly as possible through symbolic imagery.
A View Of Saturn
Oil on Panel
100cm x 65cm x 5cm
This painting is a meditation on our relationship with linear time. All things are temporary, pursued to the end by time’s relentless arrow, and there are moments in life when we can feel this keenly. The work draws deeply on its setting: a warehouse in Hull whose beauty lies in how openly it shows its long history on its flaking walls.
Symbols of impermanence and memory appear throughout: death’s skull, time’s arrow, the ashes of fading memory, the chalk marks of plans undone. All of it made to give shape to an invisible sensation – what it feels like to realise, however briefly, that time is passing through you, changing you.
Overhead, a glittering planet hangs in the evening sky. The title tells us it’s Saturn: ancient god of time, endings, and decay. It watches over everything, as it has, and will continue to, for countless millennia.
