Bahyelos
Oil, Powder and Pigment on MDF panels
42cm x 60cm
2017
These paintings allude to recordings of time being passed over each panel, suggesting narratives which leads onto one another. Within the Bahyelos series there are lots of movement, mediums and textures. A fine pearlescent powder, pigment and oil paint has been applied to the surface. My style of painting is gestural and offers up variations of perspective. One reading can be seen as a bird’s eye view which aims to warp the viewers perception of real ground. These are very expressionist paintings, they have vitality and are energetic with the hand clearly being evident. Bahyelos offers up a feeling that someone has been there, there are layered and scraped off painterly surfaces with a vast array of brush marks which demands consideration from the viewer. The paintings invite you in, making you want to go up closer, which becomes more personal to the viewer. A feeling of daydreaming occurs when looking for too long, as if looking up into the clouds and seeing different shapes. There are times when you think you understand what you are looking at, but then you can see something new, which makes the Bahyelos series become ever changing. My paintings have been successful in conveying a sense of time being recorded through various snap shots. Bahyelos functions by challenging the viewer with a new, fantastical landscape with non-traditional colours. These layered paintings have a feeling of hybridization to them, the world we know and the unknown world. I experimented with the strange blends of derelict industrial detritus and an exceptionally wild landscape. To condense the space, I altered the ways in which I painted the Earth’s natural landscape, which started by overlaying tracing paper drawings to create new environments. Bahyelos has a sense of memory disappearing through the layers of time as I create from an imagined place through real life visualization. The intention is to collapse time and space, creating a particular place that is unreachable but still sharing similarities with our own world, with a hint of chaos. I strived to construct work in a similar style to Alexey Adonin’s dystopian drawings, by creating works that allow for the exploration of an abstract world without any constraints of realism. I found great inspiration within Hito Steyerl’s essay ‘In free fall’, which talks about the illusion of the horizon. There’s a sense of groundlessness in my paintings as we move from a position of the mythical viewer looking down onto the horizon as an illusion, to the position of surveillance looking down from above and then the illusion of ground because there is no real sense of ground. You get a sense of falling in these otherworldly paintings, you can no longer tell what is what in relation to the object that surrounds you and everything is falling. You can no longer see yourself in relation to the space around you in this warped environment.
Oil, Powder and Pigment on MDF panels
42cm x 60cm
2017
These paintings allude to recordings of time being passed over each panel, suggesting narratives which leads onto one another. Within the Bahyelos series there are lots of movement, mediums and textures. A fine pearlescent powder, pigment and oil paint has been applied to the surface. My style of painting is gestural and offers up variations of perspective. One reading can be seen as a bird’s eye view which aims to warp the viewers perception of real ground. These are very expressionist paintings, they have vitality and are energetic with the hand clearly being evident. Bahyelos offers up a feeling that someone has been there, there are layered and scraped off painterly surfaces with a vast array of brush marks which demands consideration from the viewer. The paintings invite you in, making you want to go up closer, which becomes more personal to the viewer. A feeling of daydreaming occurs when looking for too long, as if looking up into the clouds and seeing different shapes. There are times when you think you understand what you are looking at, but then you can see something new, which makes the Bahyelos series become ever changing. My paintings have been successful in conveying a sense of time being recorded through various snap shots. Bahyelos functions by challenging the viewer with a new, fantastical landscape with non-traditional colours. These layered paintings have a feeling of hybridization to them, the world we know and the unknown world. I experimented with the strange blends of derelict industrial detritus and an exceptionally wild landscape. To condense the space, I altered the ways in which I painted the Earth’s natural landscape, which started by overlaying tracing paper drawings to create new environments. Bahyelos has a sense of memory disappearing through the layers of time as I create from an imagined place through real life visualization. The intention is to collapse time and space, creating a particular place that is unreachable but still sharing similarities with our own world, with a hint of chaos. I strived to construct work in a similar style to Alexey Adonin’s dystopian drawings, by creating works that allow for the exploration of an abstract world without any constraints of realism. I found great inspiration within Hito Steyerl’s essay ‘In free fall’, which talks about the illusion of the horizon. There’s a sense of groundlessness in my paintings as we move from a position of the mythical viewer looking down onto the horizon as an illusion, to the position of surveillance looking down from above and then the illusion of ground because there is no real sense of ground. You get a sense of falling in these otherworldly paintings, you can no longer tell what is what in relation to the object that surrounds you and everything is falling. You can no longer see yourself in relation to the space around you in this warped environment.