Thursday 23 February 2012

                                                    Deterioration                              (2012)
                                                    Canvas, wood, emulsion
                                                    155 x 85 x 30 cm

                                                    The Painter (random house series)        (2012)
                                                    Acrylic on wood
                                                    45 x 30 cm

Developing Thoughts on My Practice

For me painting is not just the way paint can form itself on the surface of a canvas or the image created, it is the objectivity of being a painting, and what its form as a whole is capable of doing. I believe that further depths than surface content can be achieved through the spatial awareness of form and positioning allowing the potential to create new dialogues. The structural quality of the framework lends itself to possible alterations that can let it exist in a now sculptural navigation of space.
         I have adopted a term for my painting through the word ‘prop’ on the objective definition; though also follow it through to its verb. I see the work to be doing something as to represent another thing; using the stage term of prop; being a thing to use as to represent or exaggerate a certain item. This could also translate itself to describe the work through painterly definition from item to subject, though the verb of prop relates back to its physical existence and installation format. I do not make paintings that take the form of existing items however; I take the less direct approach and try to strip back to the bare minimum needed. Metaphorical allegories are created through transcendence from painting to material. My work can be simply aspects of painting; wood, loose canvas, a surface in itself, or a painting in full form mutated to my desire. The mutations are an approach to show the painting as something of anthropomorphic quality, suggestive of the prop as an individual.
         Being still of painterly origin I try to (when I do) paint with a very free and liquid style that tries to give evidence of process and layering. I am very interested in the way that colour can relate itself back to a humane existence; by using Reds I try to assert a sense of the internal, often cropped by a darker rendition of colour (black). I am very interested in the depths that black holds through its density, and predominantly use the colours Red and Green; as the two mixed together create black.

Thursday 16 February 2012

                                                    Yeti (random house pictures)       2012
                                                    Oil and acylic on wood
                                                    35 x 25 cm


                                                    Herbert (random house pictures)       2012
                                                    Oil and acylic on wood
                                                    35 x 35 cm
                                                                   
                                                    Part of Both                        2012
                                                    Acrylic, canvas, wood and plinth
                                                    150 x 65 x 50 cm

                                                    Small Works by Plinth                  2012
                                                    Acrylic, wood and plinth
                                                    120 x 85 x 50 cm

                                                    Small Works                              2012
                                                    Acrylic and spray on wood
                                                    30 x 15 cm

                                                    Rotten                                        2012
                                                    Old canvas, expanding foam, oil paint
                                                    spray paint, emulsion, mirror and plinth
                                                    150 x 65 x 50 cm

                                                    Rotten (detail)                              2012
                                                    Old canvas, expanding foam, oil paint
                                                    spray paint, emulsion, mirror and plinth
                                                    150 x 65 x 50 cm
                                                    Static Drape                              2012
                                                    Polythene, spray and plinth
                                                    170 x 65 x 50 cm

                                                    Lamp                                           2012
                                                    100w bulb, wood, corrugated perspex,
                                                    oil paint, spray paint and plinth
                                                    120 x 65 x 50 cm


                                                    Hanging Wood                                   2012
                                                    Acrylic, oil paint, rope and wood
                                                    400 x 75 cm