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Test Card TV

2019

Test Card TV, an original painting by Paul Kenton in a black float frame: a grey retro television with a colour test card screen, set against a busy mosaic of bold orange, yellow, blue and grey blocks.
Test Card TV, an original painting by Paul Kenton: a retro television set in white and black, its screen filled with a colour bar pattern, surrounded by a bold, textured field of bright blocks.
Test Card TV, an original mixed media painting by Paul Kenton, hangs in a black frame on a rough stone wall. A vintage television is drawn in white and grey at the centre, surrounded by bold blocks of yellow, orange, red and blue.
Test Card TV, an original painting by Paul Kenton, hangs in a black frame on a weathered stone wall. A vintage television with a test card glows in grey and white, surrounded by bold blocks of orange, yellow, red and blue.
Close-up of Test Card TV, an original mixed-media painting by Paul Kenton on aluminium, showing bold yellow, blue, magenta and orange blocks with dark drips running down a black grid.
Close-up of the lower corner of Test Card TV, an original mixed media painting on aluminium by Paul Kenton, showing thick palette-knife strokes in yellow, orange, blue and grey over black, with a black frame edge.
Close-up of the lower corner of Test Card TV, an original mixed media painting by Paul Kenton on aluminium, showing layered grey, blue, orange and yellow blocks of paint in a black frame.
Close-up of Test Card TV, an original mixed media painting on aluminium by Paul Kenton, showing a grey television-like form with two black circles, bold orange, blue and yellow blocks, and gritty black textures.
Description

Test Card TV reimagines the humble living-room set that once signalled the end of the broadcasting day, its screen and dials picked out in crisp black and white against a riot of colour blocks. Paul Kenton borrows the instantly recognisable geometry of the BBC Test Card — the shapes and hues a generation grew up staring at — and rebuilds it as a piece of pop art, part portrait of a machine, part abstract colour study.

Layered in mixed media on aluminium, the painting has the flat graphic punch of screen-print alongside passages of loose, textured paint, giving the nostalgia a distinctly contemporary edge. It's a work built on collective memory: instantly familiar, unapologetically bold, and full of the energy that defines Kenton's Retro collection.

Full specification
Medium
Mixed Media on Aluminium
Dimensions
122 x 122 cm (48 x 48 in)
Framed size
128 x 128 cm
Format
Original Painting
Edition
Unique, 1 of 1
Framing
Black floating frame
Signature
Hand signed by the artist
Documentation
Certificate of Authenticity
Year
2019
Collection
Retro
Delivery, framing & care

Every piece ships worldwide, fully insured, in museum-grade packaging. Originals arrive ready to hang. Contact the gallery for delivery timelines or care guidance.

Format
Original Painting
Medium
Mixed Media on Aluminium
Size
122 x 122 cm (48 x 48 in)
Edition
Unique, 1 of 1
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