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STEVE VICARY
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. Jackson Pollock, (1912 –1956)Artist Statement - Shropshire
My pictures are sourced through the tradition of English landscape painting. They are inspired by the colour, patterns, textures, shapes and image notes - abstracted down by extensive use of sketchbooks. The paintings themselves are experiments in colour, and reflect the strength and power found in the natural elements. I have built up a strong decorative abstract language, which reflects the landscape environment, such as details found in the countryside detritus.
Clues for interpreting the paintings are often reflected not only in the construction of the picture, but also in the titling of the piece, which for me are like names on the map of the artist’s world as well as incorporating actual place names of local areas visited, musical references, poetry or pieces of edited words and phrases which are often an emotional reminder of a particularly Shropshire vista.
I always find that the physical act of painting pictures and of mixing paint is a kind of motivation in itself. When the act of painting takes over, it focuses one’s eye into dealing purely with the process of the abstract of colour and mark making upon a surface within a defined area. For me, this is achieved by using a variety of specifically made shallow boxed canvases and by mixing powders with acrylics, which extends the palette range of tones and hues. The visual result gives the paintings a bright, strong, individual look.
Steve Vicary. 11/03/2006
Paul Jenkins (b1923) The conscious intention occurs in the act of painting. The-thing-as-it-changes is captured. There is something inscrutable about the familiar, something unknown, and this unknown is what I try to discover by approaching it indirectly.
you can contact steve@sandfordgallery.co.uk or visit his website at www.stevevicary.co.uk |
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