CONSTRUCT 2nd - 27th September 2017
ELE PACK HANNA TEN DOORNKAAT ELFYN LEWIS JAI LLEWELLYN
CONSTRUCT 2nd - 27th September 2017
ELE PACK HANNA TEN DOORNKAAT ELFYN LEWIS JAI LLEWELLYN Four artists each with their own visual language using line, form, colour and layer.
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E L E PA C K Using pattern and mark to create rhythm, Pack uses a range of materials; paint, pencil, fabric, collage, metallics, and build up the paintings in a very organic way overlaying layers of paint, mark and collage to build up the pictorial space. This creates glimpses, hidden spaces, things half shown, suggested. Pack uses delicate layers of texture, drawing and colour to create an ambiguous space. The image is then worked and re-worked until the image is “found�. Only when a balance and integration is achieved the painting is finished.
And the Ocean Sings to Me 120cm x 100cm Mixed Media on Canvas
Alove & Below, 120cm x 100cm
Mixed Media on Canvas
Cloud Whispers, 100cm x 100cm Mixed Media on Canvas
H A N N A T E N D O O R N K A AT German artist Hanna ten Doornkaat lives and works in the UK. Her work explores the process and meaning of drawing. The repetition of marks and lines often within a grid structure are regularly recurring motives. The laborious weaving and layering of surfaces creates fragments of something that is no longer there and moves between the visible and the invisible. ten Doornkaat’s intricate drawings explore mark-making as compound memory. Constructed from layer upon layer of rectilinear geometries, obsessively serialised marks and lines, her work incorporates process as signifier of human response to both the experiential, as defined by materials and memory, and the mind’s abstract construction of form and meaning.
o.T.009/2017, 25cm x 20cm
Acrylics, Graphite Pencil, Wax on Plyboard
LfA 001/2016, 25cm x 20cm
Acrylics, Graphite Pencil on Plyboard
o.T.010/2017, 25cm x 20cm
Acrylics, Graphite Pencil, Wax on Plyboard
Comfortably numb I 2017, 25cm x 20cm
Acrylics, Graphite Pencil on Plyboard
ELFYN LEWIS Surfaces are layered with paint that overflows, dripping. Congested, thick impasto paint has been pushed and forced to create a painting, which is also an object of desire. These paintings are layered time after time until the upper layer explodes and transforms from its volcanic creation into a vivid landscape. These are eruptions of colour and beauty intended to transfix the viewer.
Addoli, 6 x 9 inches
Acrylic on paper on mdf
Treban, 9.5 x 10 inches
Acrylic on paper on mdf
Fron Haul, 9.5 x 10 inches
Acrylic on paper on mdf
J A I L L E W E L LY N For me painting is a very physical activity, I need to feel a physical connection with the canvas, the paint and colour to create an emotional attachment. The painting needs to be beaten into shape to become mine, an extension of my physical being, before any kind of feeling is present. Everything needs to happen in the painting, I don’t rehearse or plan, I want my mistakes and workings to all be present on the canvas. When a painting is finished, a part of me has left.
Stuck Like Glue, 33cm x 41cm Oil on Canvas
Over Lap, 41cm x 33cm Oil on Canvas
&Gallery, 17 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QG andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk