2017 Recent Paintings - Artist Statement
I am a maker. I put various materials together to make something visually interesting.
Making a painting is to arrange the parts to guide and hold the eye of the viewer – to keep the mind involved with their play, to expand the imagination and to find pleasure in seeing all the relationships.
I want it to be visually complicated and interesting enough to let new things be seen over time: the viewer can change but the painting does not. One of painting’s main attributes is that it is essentially not time-based.
The process as a whole follows my own discovery of the work in the making, without having any fixed pre-conceived plan. I want to allow chance, accident, and spontaneity to play their parts.
The actual work is like building a coalition of diverse people, to see them get along well together, to change each other and develop surprising and complex relationships. All the elements of my materials: paint, colour, size, texture, etc. have unique personalities. In proximity they constantly interact and have an effect on each other’s characters.
I am excited by this new work of composing in polygons instead of rectangles. It means a change is required in my old ways of holding and moving the attention. More connections and contrasts are possible and often surprising. They can also be seen to reflect this digital age with its interconnectivity and the bombardment of images and information.
I am a maker. I put various materials together to make something visually interesting.
Making a painting is to arrange the parts to guide and hold the eye of the viewer – to keep the mind involved with their play, to expand the imagination and to find pleasure in seeing all the relationships.
I want it to be visually complicated and interesting enough to let new things be seen over time: the viewer can change but the painting does not. One of painting’s main attributes is that it is essentially not time-based.
The process as a whole follows my own discovery of the work in the making, without having any fixed pre-conceived plan. I want to allow chance, accident, and spontaneity to play their parts.
The actual work is like building a coalition of diverse people, to see them get along well together, to change each other and develop surprising and complex relationships. All the elements of my materials: paint, colour, size, texture, etc. have unique personalities. In proximity they constantly interact and have an effect on each other’s characters.
I am excited by this new work of composing in polygons instead of rectangles. It means a change is required in my old ways of holding and moving the attention. More connections and contrasts are possible and often surprising. They can also be seen to reflect this digital age with its interconnectivity and the bombardment of images and information.