When I looked at the first page of your gallery on
your web site, I
followed the line that less is more and the less you
cover the artwork
with brush, line and colour the more the space
works for the artist and
the viewer. There seems something of the hustle
and bustle, not
necessarily meant but in essence summing up our
lives, multi-tasking,
catering for the family, working for our keeps. This
I began to realise
was not the brush marks but the diverse and
perspectival lines of the
street, the ever moving heaving and living street.
Quite something and
you have got it.
The second set of paintings, diverse with the
richness of nature, the
trees, and bracken vegetation again encourages
the imagination. It is
not the sublime, a word over used in art, but a
feeling of staid and
fertile nature. A seeming contradiction to have
both, but nevertheless
evident and enriching. A new place, a furrow, an
Australian outback. I
do not know if this is what is meant, is this the
compliment you were
looking for .
The third page, sunning in a vista of tourist bliss,
helped by the light
we feel half blinded and also happy to see figures
in the mid ground.
The water on the other hand settles in a sense of
perspective, the
angular curving (can I say that), the masts
stretching high, this is the
art of the holiday abroad, the idyll of comfort and
sensation. We are
travelling.
The forth, we tend to see art in a framework,
starting with the pyramid
or triangle, we cannot help feel we must be part of
a hierarchy,
unhealthy groupism, but necessary to harness our
emotions. This trend is
rightfully Usurped by your figurative compositions,
and bright colour
and contrasting light.
Written By E.
Waller 04/10
