No Such Place Painting

The intention of my painting is to enable the viewer to transcend into a dream-like landscape, indicative of film. This fantasy landscape entrenched with figures is an intangible site, a place not quite rooted in reality. The work is a materialization of a day dream, redolent of escapism. It is a mental diversion exemplified by recreation and re-screening. When do we get to the boundary of representation before spiralling into the realm of abstraction? The painting is an optical acrobat, it uses the language of abstraction but it is still anchored in representation. I work thinly over canvas with diluted acrylic paint and watercolour pencil, and then use deformed fields of colour to similarly deface and obscure human figures and landscapes. The painting is overworked and spaces on the canvas are left exposed to reinforce this dialectic notion. The brush strokes often range from gestural to contained marks and from facets of bold pigment to saturated pastel-like colours. Escapism is a discouraging topic as our society is secularly Puritan based in that it looks down upon unproductive daydreamers. The painting is effervescent and welcoming especially through the playful tones. The painting is provocative and defies compliancy to not be an unproductive

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:55.1 W x 63 H x 0.4 D in

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