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

edgescape:sylte, mixed media on panel, 95cm x 95cm.

sylte, detail.
a close-up of edgescape : sylte 2006… it merges from a textured, crumbled brown, bronze black into a mellow, eroded surface… again, not applied paint, but a myriad of negative traces, underlying textures gain through the removalof layers, a process which i believe is formally called grattage… silt, when separated from mud, is quite exquisite, tiny, almost shimmering fragments of sand and other mineral traces… the marsh river valley in which i live is very windswept and the roads flood frequently, mud and silt in various forms is a regular encounter… i was pleased with the outcome, achieving the softest 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…

