Current Exhibition
DAVID RYAN
REGION
BONE CLOUD NORTH WIND
8 March - 5 April
opens on Friday 7 March at 5.30pm, all welcome
Artist Talk on Saturday 15 March at 2pm. Please bring a chair if you'd like to sit down.
"A painting is for slow intuitional speculation.
All these paintings begin as an exploration and interpretation of natural forces, elemental material forms, hints of ice washed air and silvered light. The work centres on abstraction from direct observation. An examination into the possibilities and liabilities of abstraction and its ability to hold subject matter.
I try to break the code of the painting and let it take on a life of its own. It attempts to build a bridge to another way of seeing that works as a catalyst for exploring the natural world, which though outside of art, it is always ultimately the source of art. In the retrieval of visual cues derived from observation there is an attempt to make the space between things seem palpable and real, underlying the physical world, connecting and flowing through everything that we inhabit. The act of seeing is the creation of thought forms. Thought forms of feeling, sensing, understanding, anticipation and assertion where we invent ourselves, moment to moment, fashioned out of our own experience and this then becomes a series of events occurring within the arena of the natural world." David Ryan
