Abstraction

Recently I have been working in the flow of abstraction. I am exploring this intuitive path of form, light and colour within the context of natural landscape forms. I am also contemplating the word intuitive … Is intuition developed with experience and knowledge? How does one know where to put that next mark? In this light I believe that intuition or perhaps artistic intuition is part of our experience; a discerning feeling. Is this abstraction ? A thought to contemplate.

I focus on expedient energy, a pattern of movement that has become my mark making. I have a certain cadence, pattern and rhythm that is somehow connected to my arm. I am energized by the landscape ; the colour, form and light are continually changing as we do.

I find that my process isn’t fixed. That being said I do create an underpainting of sorts. Not a stiff drawing but a swooping gestural drawing with loose paint or watered down medium. This is to establish the composition. Then the colour arrives!!