Another Day
James lieutenant
Another Day is a series of new paintings. These five works have been made over a period of 12 months. The compositions derive from a continuous process of automatic drawing. This process links to memory, colliding imagery from found, made and remembered sources. The drawing process abstracts the forms. When making a drawing and selecting which to use as the base for a painting, I seek an intersection of uncertainty. My imagery always has a level of ambiguity; I wanted to extend this ambiguity further through abstraction in this series.
After transferring my drawings to their painting support, the compositions are turned into a surface. I attempt to resolve the confused drawing sources through a process of glazing thin layers of paint. Using traditional and lengthy painting processes, I am seeking an elegant and beautiful outcome. I’m asking the viewer to closely observe the surface of these paintings, while questioning the composition.
