Marion Jones
Previous paintings or paintings by someone else, photos or other images initiate possibilities or act as starting points for new paintings. My paintings are made in response to my ongoing observations of the formal devices used to represent non figurative language within painting.
As the painting develops it is always the structure that is the most important feature. How the eye is led across the painting and how the viewer relates to the painting.
Often a painting will develop through a series of layers and motifs which have been developed over time. Some layers will be visible and motifs and patterns will be distorted and changed as the painting develops. Some are visible as the light changes.Sometimes a line appears and that then becomes the motif of the painting and then the motif of the next painting or series of paintings.
The work attempts to gather and to clear: gather in the sense of bringing things into view, then clearing through process of reducing and refining the surface.
As the painting develops it is always the structure that is the most important feature. How the eye is led across the painting and how the viewer relates to the painting.
Often a painting will develop through a series of layers and motifs which have been developed over time. Some layers will be visible and motifs and patterns will be distorted and changed as the painting develops. Some are visible as the light changes.Sometimes a line appears and that then becomes the motif of the painting and then the motif of the next painting or series of paintings.
The work attempts to gather and to clear: gather in the sense of bringing things into view, then clearing through process of reducing and refining the surface.