Matt Guild and friends: Grant Thornton exhibition
27/08/2009
30/08/2009
A short exhibition, for three days only, featuring Matt Guild and friends; Michael McCormack, Jane Blackmore, Ann-Marie Jean and Anna Stichbury.
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'My works are always about colour and texture. I am influenced by many things, my immediate environment, places I travel, changes of seasons and the transition of time. These themes are always abstract in my paintings and portrayed through the use of layers of colour, textures, patterns and imagery" |
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"My painting explores the mystery of landscape, its intimacy and immensity. The painted marks and colours become a multitude of interwoven energies, from power to beauty to harmony. The paintings can take you beyond what your eye sees to connect with a richer fuller experience of nature. My favourite works are large scale pieces that envelope you as a forest would, or give you a sense of the immensity of high open mountain tops and vast seas or skies." |
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"The theme I've been pursuing for the past five years plays with polarity the way a poet plays with words; recognizable yet intriguingly obscure. I believe that the omission of things can be just as powerful as the obvious. I encourage the viewer to be taken with the intangible qualities of the natural landscape and the emotion that the environment evokes." |
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"My paintings are about light, shadows and reflections. I love capturing the detail, the way a certain object looks in a moment of time, capturing New Zealand icons and pulling on the heart strings, helping us to remember where we have come from." |
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"I am unsure as to what it is that drives me to paint every day. That is the trutrh. Sometimes I think it's the light shafting across a building and casting evening shadows on the road. I find the effects that light has on colour fascinating. I love shapes of rooftops, pathways disappearing down a hill, the colour of the ocean at the end of a street. These are all sufficiuent to inspire me to paint for a lifetime. One thing I realise is that my paintings are records of my life. They are the place in which I live. My art is about turning brush strokes and colour into a record of my home, whether intentionally or unitentially, it doesn't matter." |
