Jazz Green : Artist Journal

August 3rd, 2006

I recently showed this textural abstract landscape painting in an exhibition entitled colour values (with two other artists), at the Halesworth Gallery

textured abstract landscape painting
edgescape:sylte, mixed media on panel, 95cm x 95cm framed.

large textured abstract painting
sylte, detail.

a close-up of edgescape : sylte 2006… it merges from a textured, crumbled brown-bronze black into a more mellow, eroded stone-like surface… again, not applied paint, but a myriad of negative paint traces, underlying textures through the removal of layers, a process which i believe is formally called grattage…

silt, when separated from mud, is quite exquisite, almost shimmering fragments of sand and other mineral traces… the marsh river valley where i live is very windswept and the roads flood frequently, mud and silt in various forms is a regular rural encounter… i was pleased with the outcome, achieving a soft gradation from brown to grey-green, but it was hell to photograph…

here are some images of the painting as a work in progress, from early 2006…

04 january 2006…

16 march 2006…

25 march 2006…

view more abstract paintings in this series…

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