Untitled Document

My work has been through many incarnations, it has been installation based, sculptural, and interactive, but underpinning all this is the notion of colour as a concept and a powerful tool in conveying chaos theory at play.

The concept or idea becomes the system, the system becomes the process, and the process becomes the machine that makes the painting. Structure and sequence are key.

Carefully planned layers incorporate different techniques and trap photographic images; images themselves that capture elements of change engineered by man.
The choice of image and my approach to choosing images has changed over the years; from pushing forward forceful and dynamic compositions, to selecting more banal images or patterns with a view to using them more dispassionately, merely as random ingredient or reference.

My approach to painting is like that of a scientist conducting experiments, using predetermined parameters that often create surprising results. Controlled randomness is achieved by distancing myself from the work emotionally and even physically, drizzling or splattering paint from greater and greater heights. I no longer use anything as artful as a paintbrush, choosing instead to use tools that are intended for more process led applications.

Still appealing though is the pure organic fluidity of paint. Playing with the natural order of things; pouring and controlling, or allowing.
Selection of colour is more emotionally detached, where I have previously referred to theoretical values of colour, such as so-called primary colours, I have gone so far the other way as to simply choose three colours that just happened to be in the same box next to each other, just for their unusualness.

The result of integrating all these different elements is a laminated acrylic panel, like a piece of engineered timber, made stronger by the way it is put together.

While not setting out to produce a pleasant aesthetic beauty, irrational and unexpected results occur that often fulfil and satisfy the receiver in surprising ways.

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