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| Bonnie Brown |
With a definition of poetry as “emotion recollected in
tranquillity”, then the paintings are the written poem turned into a visual
form. The motifs, colours, textures, sense and manipulation of space taking the
form of the words, pulled together into a carefully considered composition
where rhythms and balances are constantly reviewed until nothing more can be
added or removed to achieve the desired transformation and translation of
ideas.
“My intention is to create a luminous composition made up of
the consonance of several colours to form a possible space for the spirit. The
paintings are lyrical evocations of time and place, combining inner and outer
worlds in a rich fabric of colour and spatial manipulations.”
The ideas are triggered by something seen, felt, touched,
observed, a memory often on the edge of recognition. All familiar and
individual, these often unrelated images are formed together into a new visual
relationship on the canvas.
The paintings are mixed media and oils on canvas or paper.
Working from sketchbooks and drawings the paintings are developed through a
series of layered images in paint, colour, texture, frottage and monoprint.
They are often explored through small series of varying scales following a
particular concept or idea which may have originated from observational
research, and take many months to resolve allowing for the continual
reassessment of the surfaces and the source of the idea.
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