Colour is my instrument, the paintbrush an extension of my body. I am fascinated by, and passionate about sight and sound. My work explores the union of Sound and Paint.
I wanted to create an environment where the viewer can be immersed in colour, like the sensation of being in the middle of an orchestra, feeling the vibrations directly accessing the soul with peripheral movement and rhythm. I am not trying to paint a specific sound, instead I am using the physicality of movement within a painting to create a sensory experience with sound coming from inside the painting.
The Paintings follow the formation of sonata form, which is a compositional structure used in classical music. They consist of an ‘exposition’ which is an experiment that explores possible directions. A ‘development’ which takes ideas from the ‘exposition’ and evolves them, and a ‘recapitulation’ which echoes the exposition resolving with a sense of fear, excitement and change.
These paintings have many layers of intense moving passages through paint. They do not shout but they can be heard. Colours come and go, but blue remains constant, linking each movement. Drips defy gravity rising not falling, while colours sit next to each other. Areas of deep pink followed by more translucent colours, as though acting as reflections that echo the previous movements. The forms and colours of the work represent the location and feelings of living by the coast. Blue sings like the sound of a ringing wine glass, it represents depth, power, passion, peace and spirituality.
When more than one sense is reached at the same time, new ways of feeling can be accessed letting you into a sensory world, synthesising the senses; synthesising the arts.
I wanted to create an environment where the viewer can be immersed in colour, like the sensation of being in the middle of an orchestra, feeling the vibrations directly accessing the soul with peripheral movement and rhythm. I am not trying to paint a specific sound, instead I am using the physicality of movement within a painting to create a sensory experience with sound coming from inside the painting.
The Paintings follow the formation of sonata form, which is a compositional structure used in classical music. They consist of an ‘exposition’ which is an experiment that explores possible directions. A ‘development’ which takes ideas from the ‘exposition’ and evolves them, and a ‘recapitulation’ which echoes the exposition resolving with a sense of fear, excitement and change.
These paintings have many layers of intense moving passages through paint. They do not shout but they can be heard. Colours come and go, but blue remains constant, linking each movement. Drips defy gravity rising not falling, while colours sit next to each other. Areas of deep pink followed by more translucent colours, as though acting as reflections that echo the previous movements. The forms and colours of the work represent the location and feelings of living by the coast. Blue sings like the sound of a ringing wine glass, it represents depth, power, passion, peace and spirituality.
When more than one sense is reached at the same time, new ways of feeling can be accessed letting you into a sensory world, synthesising the senses; synthesising the arts.
