The Snowman
Oil, Powder, Gold flakes and Pigment on MDF panels
40cm x 307cm
2017
My style of painting presents variations of perspective, whilst offering up vitality. There is a strong sense 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. A feeling of daydreaming occurs when looking for too long, as if looking up into the clouds and seeing different shapes. The Snowman conveys a sense of time being recorded through a snap shot, expressionistic painting. It challenges the viewer with new, fantastical landscapes and non-traditional colours. This layered painting has a feeling of hybridisation, 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. The snowman has a sense of memory disappearing through the layers of time as I create from an imagined place through real life visualisation. 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 construct work by creating works that allow for the exploration of an abstract world without any constraints of realism. 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.
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Oil, Powder, Gold flakes and Pigment on MDF panels
40cm x 307cm
2017
My style of painting presents variations of perspective, whilst offering up vitality. There is a strong sense 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. A feeling of daydreaming occurs when looking for too long, as if looking up into the clouds and seeing different shapes. The Snowman conveys a sense of time being recorded through a snap shot, expressionistic painting. It challenges the viewer with new, fantastical landscapes and non-traditional colours. This layered painting has a feeling of hybridisation, 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. The snowman has a sense of memory disappearing through the layers of time as I create from an imagined place through real life visualisation. 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 construct work by creating works that allow for the exploration of an abstract world without any constraints of realism. 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.
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instagram.com/melizsabanci