SCOTT PATTINSON
“The Silence exhibition is tight. It is a family of colours and lines that riff and echo, beat and dissipate. But it is also tight. The tension is palpable in the room. A myriad of line and colour, dizzy heights and depths, pitfalls, ethereal balances, and subliminal forms draw the viewer into a colourful void of conglomerate meanings, fusing and ripping apart. …Unlike purely expressionist artists, he (Scott) commits to boundaries and carefully chooses what he reveals. He pulls back the NOISE of life, strapping it to a discernable grid. This keeps order and gives harmony. The bright colours collide in solid streams of directional purpose, withholding vulnerability, withdrawing weakness. Our visceral response is to want to rip them away. To see the emotional spectacle. To turn the flashlight on memory and pierce through the intransigence of systemic order. To take down cheerful skies, undo the sumptuous warmth of glazed strata, stand barefoot in the wind-swept roads of paint, and dig below the blinding snow of whites, to reveal the rawest season. We want to see it. To be in the room with silence. To actually see the NOISE of the in between.” –Aidan M.D. Ware
My paintings are the result of an ongoing study of the idiosyncratic energy and flow of life.
I believe that humans innately yearn for authentic experiences, for experiences which nurture and ground us with positive energy, and which serve to support our spiritual development. And yet, in contemporary Western society, we have reached the point where we are absolutely inundated by messages which promote an insatiable desire for stimulation and instantaneous self-gratification gained through the amassing of material goods and singular investment. It is this unhealthy "white noise of life" that distracts us from focusing on the more meaningful aspects of being alive and which prevents us from appreciating something as simple (and powerful) as the silence of spaces between things.
This "raw-silence" is the energy I intend to capture through the act of painting. As tangible artifacts of emotion, passion and sensuality, my compositions strive to build engaging relationships between sensible proportions, layering of paint, and obtuse geometries; these elements reach out to each other, communicating within.
There is a life to each piece - a tension between control and chaos - each painting a manifestation of an interior, subconscious landscape where you feel a sense of things happening quickly around you...
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