Jazz
Jazz is an emotional, free flowing and self-expressive style of music. Jazz stimulates my creativity, especially when I am working with abstract painting. The key element of jazz is improvisation, commonly structured around a repetitive call-and-response pattern. Avant-garde or free-jazz even abandons the strict notion of chord progression, allowing the individual musicians to improvise freely within the context of a given scale or mode.
Abstract painting is similar to jazz music in that it is not strictly structural. The free-flow of the mind is allowed and the illusions formed of colour are guided by our sentiment. Intensity and saturation are supported by the artist’s passion. Freedom of expression and constant transformations a