Josh Lilley is pleased to present Heavy is the Mountain, a new solo exhibition by British painter Ryan Mosley (b. 1980, Chesterfield, UK). Exploring Mosley’s distinctive narrative style and wry application of art historical reference, this suite of vibrant, expansive paintings augments the artist’s ornate cast of long running characters with compelling new additions. Musicians and troubadours meet cowboys and mountaineers, grape pickers and pearl divers, ranging from the bourgeois to the blue collar, the naive wanderer to the scheming gambler. They inhabit a world of myth and fable, where each of their entangled tales extend far beyond the confines of the frame, out into murky pasts and distant lands.
