I would say my work is abstract in that I paint with spontaneity. (Pollock, Hoyland, Rae, )I like the paint to take on a life of it’s own. Drips, reactions, accidents, suprises, I block over, I add. Adding and subtracting, I build up layers, texture. I think of the composition as I go. I don’t start with a plan, though I have many small paintings on paper that I have in mind. This might dictate where the painting go’s. The finished painting might have had many incarnations previously. They disappear forever, like footprints in sand. Sometimes I regret, though the finished painting is only finished if I’m satisfied. Some paintings will take weeks. Some are complete in two hours. Some it seems will take an eternity. I know they are complete when the canvass seems to come alive.
I like my paintings to seem alive. Quick, expressive brush strokes can do this. A Painterly gesture records a moment in time. An imprint that is left Reverberating on the canvass. I add thick glossy lines. I paint shapes. Big looming skyscrapers . I paint big thick black lines, roads, traffic lights. Shapes and sillohuettes that litter the visual urban scenery that we take for granted. I resort back to references of a journey undertaken by someone? myself? Footprints, hands, a presence. A document, or proof of our exsistence on our ever shrinking blue and green ball of rock. Or are people getting bigger? My work conjures up for me, archaeology and pre history. I would say my work is abstract though I like to splay images of real things into the mix. I like to achieve the raw feeling of an abstract, yet I like to have elements, readable easily decipherable. Feet, hands, buildings, figures, clouds, sun, moon. I present these like pieces of a jigsaw perhaps in a four cornered arena. I like them to fit. My battle is making them fit into a good solid composition. In this respect I ally myself to Alan Davie. How many motifs or symbols did he have? Lots! He created his own parallel world. A never ending source of ideas. I have mine for now, a few motifs. They all mean something to me. I like the idea of the pagan green man being ever present in our day to day society in the guise of traffic lights, watching over us, guiding us through the endless stream of traffic. This is one that has got me thinking...
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AuthorSam Weldon - Artist |