Vince Bridgman

A 25 year career as a graphic designer has fine-tuned Vince's awareness of colour and composition, and wields a strong influence over his painting. Line and colour are versatile and powerful tools in art, just as they are graphic design.

Vince has developed a process of drawing and painting that is part random, part controlled. He creates intricate patterns formed of simple geometric structures, and which allow for accident and randomisation. When beginning the application of colour to a pattern, the process of ordered randomisation is repeated - each mark being an independent decision, but referring to the colours and shapes around it. The whole creative process is highly detailed, extremely labour-intensive, and completely absorbing.

The results are entirely abstract, although they seem to refer to patterns, geometry and forms seen in nature; not surprising, as nature is itself is a form of ordered randomisation.

Each work begins with a certain concept and formula, but from this start point the painting slowly evolves in its own unique way.