This year (2008) I started to look at the possibilities in staining and
pouring paint, I began to move away from painting inspired by sound and
into painting that evolved directly from the unconcious mind.
Some
of the images drying in the sun (above) were, as Turner would put it,
'colour beginnings', they were created by flowing acrylic onto paper.
At this time I was looking at the work of the American Abstract
Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler, who employed the technique of
pouring oil paint directly onto canvas.
Within these colour beginnings forms of reference started to appear and
as I was working my imagination started to organise the composition
and images of landscape came to mind, this influenced the progression
of the work. From almost a 'happy accident' came a controlled direction
in the composition.
