Creation

Description

This very large oil painting on canvas, called Creation, is part of a series of works called Time Lines that was done from 2019-2021. The images for this piece were inspired by stylized figures from the European Neolithic art and culture, thousands of years ago.

This series was, in large part, a visual exploration of ideas about why artists make art and a comparison of contemporary and Neolithic attitudes to art. This painting, Creation, has to do with transcendence or going beyond a prior form or state of oneself – mystical experience. To read more about this, please click on the link to my February 2024 blog

The works in this series are experiments with form; using techniques that draw attention to the process and materials used in creating them and are not part of the realist tradition. I seek to negotiate a middle path between aesthetic appeal and sterile abstraction; between the grip of the past and newness for its own sake. So while my current work has a conceptual motivation, I also want to communicate the joy of colours, lines and forms depicted in oil paint – to communicate at a visceral rather than an intellectual level.

No frame is needed for this painting & it is ready to hang.