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Developing a distinctive voice by diving head first into auto-biography, Bassett's works catalogue his day to day life with honesty, humour and pathos. This auto-biographic approach to painting leads Bassett to work in a figurative manner, making the figures in his painting an allegory to his life. Further themes in Bassett's art are of boats and fisherman as a reference to the traditions of his home town, St. Ives, as well as to his family background, and to contemporary leisure life. Questions about how our world is changing and how we place ourselves in-between the past and the future are raised.

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Exhibited Works

Wet Willy’ – If I Could Climb I would Squeeze The Shit Out Of You
2016
Acrylic and ink on wood
130 x 165 cm | 51 1/4 x 65 in

The Boy Outside My Window
2017
Acrylic and ink on canvas
100 x 80 cm | 39 1/3 x 31 1/2 in

Getting Beach Fit
2016/17
Acrylic and Ink on Wood
55 x 90 cm | 21 2/3 x 35 1/2 in

Summer Folk
2017
Acrylic and Ink on Paper
42 x 30 cm | 16 1/2 x 11 2/3 in

Hope, I can smoke you
2018
Acrylic and ink on paper
42 x 29 cm | 16 1/2 x 11 1/3 in

Silenced By Fake News
2015/16
Acrylic and Ink on Wood
122 x 86 cm | 48 x 33 3/4 in