Jon Thompson, Ben
Ravenscroft, Andrew Graves, Andrew Bick
For many years,
Jon Thompson has been profoundly affected by
the written and recorded work of the great Canadian pianist
and theorist, Glenn Gould. He draws many parallels between
Gould's approach and his own or, more precisely, Gould's
understanding of musical expression and his own understanding
of the business of painting.
Colour, mood, atmosphere,
sense of place - these are the flesh, blood and bones of
Thompson's remarkable paintings.
"Gould's idea of
repetition through translation - the building of an imaginal
entity capable of taking passage from the inside to the
outside followed by the translation of mental 'stuff', 'the
music itself', into a perceivable form, is not one unfamiliar
to painters' Colour, mood, atmosphere, sense of place are all
factors which come to exist in my mind's eye in an utterly
compelling and extremely precise form."
Jon Thompson
The
Toronto Cycle #1, The Beach
oil on canvas, 2008
175
x 150 cm
Ben
Ravenscroft makes compelling paintings, which behind
their spontaneity, reveal multiple levels of premeditation and
intention, intuition and deliberation. Ravenscroft
systematically places bands of colour in order to retrace the
brush marks of the primed surface, both embellishing and
disrupting the original function.
Ben
Ravenscroft
Thankassary Flowerbed
acrylic on
aluminium, 2004
150 x 150 cm
The paintings of
Andrew Graves sit at the edge of what is
recognisable, yet at the moment when revelation seems imminent
they shift and blur. They contain a promise that at some
point, soon, their nature will become clear, their meaning
unfolded.
Andrew Graves
Smoke
oil on
wood, 2009
28 x 34,5 cm
Andrew
Bick's multi-layered paintings use various shapes in
free and geometric abstraction.
They are executed in a
combination of oil paint, marker pen, wax, acrylic paint and
perspex and play with opposites such as transparency and
opaqueness, depth and surface, line and plane, colour and
non-colour, glossy and matt surfaces.
Andrew Bick
Variant {south west} 3
part invention, double spider
acrylic, pencil, oil
paint, watercolour and wax on wood, 2006/2009
122 x 189 x 4
cm
