This
work explores the potential for interplay between sight and
sound. It mirrors the process of free
improvisation in jazz. The work is made without preconception and as a
conversation between the senses. Sometimes it starts with paint
sometimes with sound. After the initiating move each subsequent layer
of sound or paint is laid down in the light of what is already
happening. The work is created as it arrives. It is a back and forth
process moving between the two sensory modes each informing the other.
It ends when both appear to be fully materialised. The sounds are
sometimes found sound, more often instrumented sound created
spontaneously and recorded in a portable digital multitrack studio.
Both can stand alone but ideally are experienced together, looking and
listening simultaneously.
To play sound improvisations click by each work.
Ball Drops Rolls
Oil on Panel
16" x 20"
2012
Bending Orange
Oil on Panel
16" x 20"
2013
Cosmotion
Oil on Panel
16" x 20"
2014
Cypress
Oil on Panel
16" x 20"
2013
Dzangai's Garden Fence
Oil Over Acrylic on Canvas
54" x 32"
2012
Flight of the Toucan
Oil on Panel
16" x 20"
2013
Geoffiti
Oil on Panel
16" x 20"
2013
Indigo Swing
Oil on Panel
16" x 20"
2012
Line from the 7th
Mixed Media on Panel
16" x 20"
2014
Underpulse
Mixed Media on Panel
24" x 36"
2014
Through Water Darkly
Mixed Media on Panel
24" x 36"
2014