Amorphous Gorgeous

Amorphous Gorgeous – what kind of work might this exhibition title embrace? 

‘Amorphous’ generally means lacking in structure, but it can also mean indeterminate and seemingly unorganized.  My relationship with amorphousness is through the random nature of my process, and an approach to painting that invites happy accidents and serendipity. ‘Gorgeous’ describes things that are jaw-droppingly beautiful and so stunning they take your breath away. I would be very pleased to achieve the visual pleasure of gorgeousness in a viewer’s response to my work!

My theme this time, reflected in the titles, is geological. I have been strongly influenced by beautiful images from the world of mineralogy and petrography.  Gorgeous samples called ‘thin sections’ are achieved by photographing rocks and minerals through polarizing microscopes. These images have provided an endless source of inspiration.

These paintings continue my long exploration of the wide, unbounded world of abstraction and my preoccupation with the nature of paint.  Such a wonderful and versatile medium affords inexhaustible opportunities to be pushed, pulled, applied thick and thin, to be opaque or transparent.  And, with the addition of color, there is the opportunity to genuinely pursue the attainment of gorgeousness.

Of Colur and Light - Women Abstract Artists Biennial

Of Colour and Light - Women Abstract Artists Biennial at West End Art Space features the work of 50 Victorian women painters and sculptors.

This show illustrates the potential for wide and exciting interpretation of the term abstraction. Works include geometric, hard-edge, lyrical, expressive and minimalist, 2D and 3D, traditional and less traditional media.

This newly opened gallery space is beautifully presented. The wall and column intervals invite viewers into the space and the lighting brings out the very best in the works.

West End Gallery, 112 Adderley Street, West Melbourne. Exhibition open till 28th February 2021.