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This exhibition makes me feel like I am standing still in solitude, whilst everything else rushes past me. His scenes are familiar, whilst also being strangely foreign, full of objects we see everyday, but never actually observe. They are the things you stare at blankly when you're thinking deeply about something else. 

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Choosing these banal objects, he aims to cause the opposite effect. It's the imagery that associates with the ability to be lost in thought whilst staring at something that actually has nothing to do with what you are thinking about. They are looking at something without actually consuming it, like being in your own little world, away from the anxieties of every day life. 

 

Dalwood's canvases depict carefully chosen moments of solitude and moments when we can be disconnected from the strain of every day life. He chooses small dark spaces like a car interior, a mournful bath, the space looking out of an aeroplane, a moonlit bedroom. In some cases, the placidity of the scene is emphasised through a dash into a frantic environment nearby - a rainstorm shown through a streaked windshield, or a fire roaring in the back seat of the car. 

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His paintings portray a mix of atmospheric solitude and warning. Their vision is disconnected, questioning and sharp, depicting that sense of time and place that relates to us all when we travel in todays world; feeling at once closed off and stateless, dispassionate yet vulnerable.

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