Peal Painting

BOARD Acrylic on a deep cradled plywood panel. Sealed with a top layer of protective varnish. Comes ready to hang with dark grey painted wrap-around edges for a clean modern look. It reveals earlier moments of the composition and traces of renounced decisions, giving both a textural quality to the board and a hint to the possibilities of what might have been. I believe it’s important for the artist to title their work. Because my work is fully abstract and not referencing landscapes or emotions but forms and colours, the titles are words that somehow stay with me, and stick as I paint – if they refer to anything it is subconscious but I’d like to share that with the viewer; it gives a point of access and ownership, however oblique. I want my work to be a dynamic presence; to engage the viewer. They are paintings to be looked at more than read, transposing the viewer into a new space without any author’s narrative or extraneous and arcane meanings.