Abstraction and balance...

I am currently working on abstraction drawings with a view to develop these compositions into sculptural reliefs. I will post some examples soon.

Although they are largely non representational, many of their shapes and forms have been influenced by living in the highlands and also cultural infuences from film and technology.

I have no hesitation to make marks and then rub out again and again, to discover the underlying balance with each piece. While very faint marks leave a history of previous marks. Working on them, I try to free my mind from concentrating on them as it were a tight illustration, and sometime conciously bash out parts of it that I feel are contrived.

I am currently interested in making the compositions to have a kind of balance and 'pleasing' feel that will enhance interiors. All very modernistic from the 1950s school of thought.
However, I strongly hope these pieces not too have a pastiche feel to them sand be raw and very much of this age. Somewhow integrating internet and technological aesthetic forms of today with an underlying raw natural form and rythym underneath.

Watch this space for some examples....