Blue and Gold
Blue and Gold
Oil on Fine Linen
129cm x 86cm
SOLD
Space Time Light… is there another dimension which we can evoke through painting and colour? Can we enter the hidden world beyond language as music sometimes appears to do – the kind of experience that reaches another identity- a higher identity one might suggest.
Blurred edges have always been a fascination right from my childhood. Blurred edges seem to create mystery, an evocation of mists, clouds, and mystery. Neurologists I now find ( researching long after years of exploring) that the theory is that the visual areas of the brain have trouble resolving blurred edges which intrigues the viewer, or holds the viewer’s interest whilst the visual brain is trying to solve the problem. In this way we delve beneath normal visual processes… in some way similar to the way music reaches beneath the cortical layers of language.
If the whole canvas is fuzzy then we become steeped in mist, rain, morning, dusk different aspects of scenery. But if one adds a shape, a shape not usually apprehended in nature, then the mind may have something else to work through.
The first one `Blue and Gold’ experiments with the notion of shapes.
The upper enclosure is a mystery. What colour is it? It is impossible to say exactly. Does it lead anywhere? Wherever one wishes.
The gold contrasts and the blurred edges are aspects I seemed unable to discard until just recently when there has been a brief sojourn into reds and various shades of black.
