What? ... Abstract series
What do you hear?
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What do you feel?
What do you sense?
What do you wish for?
Abstracts
Working intuitively with line, gesture, symbols and shapes, colour and tone, is quite different yet in some ways related, to my other figurative and naturalistic art practice. Organic forms and flowing lines and a sense of movement enter into both, and by creating in a purely abstract way, I’m able to tap into a truly authentic expression of my senses and inner landscape.
The pieces usually begin with a simple shape or gesture, and then emerge from out of this. The challenge is to stay true to my intuition and ideas as the image grows, whilst also fine-tuning and creating something that meets with a more critical and rigorous approach to composition and aesthetic wholeness.
Working instinctively from an initial sense of colour, emotion and movement, gestural shapes emerge from the background. At the beginning I work quickly then gradually the painting process slows down as the marks become more considered and refined and smaller details emerge. The painting guides me as I respond to the marks on its surface. One idea leads to another; currents and directions, forms, expressions and contrasts within the image, all respond to each other and inform each other.
This began as an idea of colour, a sense of light and direction played out in quick gestures. Then forms begin to make themselves known and the painting process slows down as I consider my next move, rather like a game of chess. Singular, logical, geometric forms appear in opposition to the organic shapes and marks, and layers of thinned oil are washed over each other, building texture and light and suggested rhythms across the canvas.
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