Artist's Monograph: A Work in Progress

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The Reinvented Painted Image​

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A very difficult thing to do is to analyse the difference between paint that conveys directly and paint that conveys through illustration. I work between thick and thin paint. Some parts of the painting are very thick and other parts are very thin. To put the paint down in such a way, where instinct and chance, conveys the image immediately onto the nervous system and is not just an illustration, when in fact the paint and the image are the same thing. These paintings reinvent ways of remaking appearance, appearance and fact. To paint the image more immediately deeper and more real, catch the fact, at it's most living and acute point.

 

 

Concentrations of Reality   

 

To provoke a reaction of the nervous system, not the eye but the nerve. Working as near to my nervous system as I possibly can, opening up areas of feeling, rather than to just illustrate an object. To unlock the valves of sensation, intuition and perception, at a  deeper level.  

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Figuration​

 

Paint becomes flesh in it's colour, texture, form, fluidity and art historical and personal memory.

Figurative representations of nudes according to traditional models.

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The Painting Process​

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Working from life and my own photographs, where the reality of the subject has been observed, absorbed and concentrated into the paintings. 

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​The Human Situation/The Human Condition - Recreate reality​

 

Meat is not the condition to which we are eventually reduced, but the condition we are in now, the condition of life itself. 

​Deforming and reforming reality within my paintings, with regards to the human/animal body.

To paint human forms that relate to the human body but are a complete distortion of it.

 

Oil paintings which reveal through paint, the human/animal anatomy’s visceral musculature, transience, uncertainty and fragility of existence.

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I would like my paintings to be a reconstruction of an event, where the struggle with the object, holds the tension of that struggle in paint and is not just an illustration of that event. Paintings where the physicality of paint and the image are locked together as one.

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