New Gallery Space open weekdays 9.30am to 4.30pm
Sea Passages – Graham High: 19th November to 20th December 2013
Open eve 26th Nov 7-9pm
The starting point for these abstract paintings is the coast of north Norfolk where Graham lives for part of the year. The resolution is in the physical act of painting: memories and feelings about the seascape explored through the plastic means of marks and shapes; through colours, textures and contrasts. The works reference experienced visual elements: sea and shore, sand dunes and distant sky; empty space and the configurations of a variety of visual incidents.
My recent paintings fall recognisably within the various manifestations of subjective abstraction. The indeterminate area between the abstract and the figurative is the overlay and underlay of the conceptual and the real, the reached for and the given. In seeking to engage with the interior aspects of experience these paintings more typically express the struggle rather than the resolution, the imbalance within the calm. They combine the amorphous with the hard-edged, the delicate with the rough, the self-consistent with the aggregated, all of which clamour to be recognised by the senses and to have sense made of them.