THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 21st JANUARY 2021: DAY 298

New work in progress. Working title: "A different blue."
Oil paint on canvas, 406 x 610 mm

19, 20, 21: Finding a reason to paint, in search of the sublime. 21st January 2021.
Part 15: 'Interpretation, abstraction, illusion. Describe what you actually see?.'

Positive versus negative? My current paintings are deliberately walking a line between abstraction and nonrepresentation, probably leaning slightly more towards the abstract but I do believe that this may be changing. However, as this concept and practice of nonrepresentation becomes a stronger influence upon these works, I begin to question how I consider the forms that I am creating within them. Whereas I may previously have considered certain elements of an abstract landscape to be positive or negative shapes, perhaps earth being positive and sky negative for example, I am now left with queries as to how and if these architypes still apply.

If these paintings are truly nonrepresentational then there is no technical reason why the painted forms should be considered as anything more than that, painted forms or perhaps even less, as painted figures, with no suggestion of hierarchy.  

To be continued…