Hanging Painting

I combine abstraction and the use of text, operating within a system of layering and staining paint onto large canvases to create interesting forms. The fluidity of these layers and forms are created by laying the canvas down flat and painting onto them they are seen as less gestural and more of an organic grown forms. The viewer must distinguish through forms the connection between the growths and the text. Each viewer relays different thoughts and feelings to the work based on their own experiences. Language is appropriated from many other sources such as poems, songs, literature, film, it is altered and changed till it becomes unrecognisable from the original source. The removal of pronouns allows the reader/viewer to become engaged with it in their own mind and put themselves within it and view it with their own experiences. The removal of punctuation and spaces between words again lets the spectator read and create even more images within their own mind. The use of the universal, utilitarian stencil allows for a contrast between the rigid text and expressive brush strokes that shape the figure. This forces the viewer to look at and decipher both parts simultaneously; making it hard to concentrate on either aesthetic element or the text for a long period of time. There is an underlying notion of slight discord through many pieces. Not necessarily obvious through the work, but the work creating it within the viewer. A clash of non-written/written, aesthetic/cognitive, hidden/seen and more increasingly painting/non-painting.