Lisa Carruthers

Born in 1958, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. I am an oil painter inspired by colour, texture, composition and balance.Currently, my work grows out of an investigation of shapes I observe in reality. Though once the process of painting begins, the shapes are augmented and transformed.My work is rarely a simple description of things seen in the external world. Whilst working on a painting I try to discover the hidden principles of nature, its tensions and balances and the energetic principles that counter its tendencies to disorder and chaos.My work isn't philosophical, ironic or concerned with the conveyance of emotion. However, I hope that the viewer responds to the painting's colour and textures, whilst exploring relations of one shape to another and ultimately its relation to the space in which they find it.My recent work has moved beyond the expressive detail that it displayed in the past. Its construction is more considered and impersona.