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United Kingdom
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 33.5 W x 29.5 H x 1.6 D in
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This painting has been made over the last six months as part of a body produced during a period of sabbatical from my teaching work. They are developed out of the relationship between my interior psychological landscape, the claustrophobia of the current epidemic and the built landscapes of the cities I have lived in. All of this now unfortunately heightened by events in Ukraine. Observations drawn from commuting purposefully or drifting purposelessly through the tarmac and the concrete, deviating through backstreets, wondering through run down industrial areas and further through the liminal margins of the cityscape, Are combined in a visual language of paint, gesture, and photographic texture. I work using an iterative process, beginning from the discoveries of previous work, but letting go of predetermined expectations, allowing chance and visual discovery to inform the dynamic journey a painting takes. A visitor to the studio was asking me about the process of making this work, so I thought I would of interest to share this. It is a very strange undertaking to take a blank canvas and construct on it an ‘image’. I begin from the discoveries of the previous work, but generally need to let go of the expectations or the idea of a predetermined outcome. The iterative process, the struggle of the journey a painting takes builds a relationship - the work I leave at the end of one late night painting session, often is not the same in the cold light of morning when it broods at me from the studio wall. Sometimes out of frustration whole passages have to be erased or painted out in what feels like a backwards step, in the hope of salvaging something, and this is often the critical point in the process - but I can’t plan for this!
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:33.5 W x 29.5 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
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For me painting is performative :: explore - form - redact - scribe - obliterate - order - resolve. The materiality of paint texture, gesture, and colour - the abstract gestalt - a record of process, a layered palimpsest, manifested in the artefact. I work using an iterative process, beginning from the discoveries of previous work, but letting go of predetermined expectations. Taking an experimental approach to working with painting media, including the use of a plasterer’s trowel, squeegee, metal scribe and occasionally brush, to allow chance and visual discovery to inform the dynamic journey a painting takes. I am a Irish/British artist from London, and since leaving there in 1997, I have lived in Malmo Sweden, in Newcastle, and currently reside in Bristol where I have a family and teach alongside of my studio practice. Importantly for me it is the experience of these cities and of their hinter-landscapes that informs my work. Alongside of my establishing and leading a foundation art & design programme, I exhibit widely in the UK, and my work is held in collections in the U.K., Europe, the UAE, and in the U.S. In 2022/3 I took a sabbatical from teaching and using this time and intellectual space to fully engage with an immersive studio practice - and produced a dynamic new group of works. Following on from this I have now left full time teaching to focus upon his studio practice. I continue to teach online and in my studio, and am a verified online tutor through Spires and Superprof, providing mentoring for UCAS applicants & workshops in art and design. For further information: https://www.superprof.co.uk/art-classes-and-ucas-mentoring-from-supportive-and-friendly-foundation-lead-tutor-ual-btec-and-practising-artist-fine-art.html Earlier Liminal Landscape series: Combining a visual language of photography, paint, and found objects from these edgescapes, these images are constructed from location, fiction, and the observation of entropy.
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