CONTEMPORARY DRAWINGS
Castlefield Gallery
Michael Bennett - Stephen Cooper - Jon Harrison - Kevin O'Brien - Alex Ramsay - Ken Turnell - John Walker
JON HARRISON
The primary source of these images can be traced through references to the body...
Jon Harrison studied painting at Birmingham School of Art 1980-83. The object of the work is to embody within the marks, gestures and recognisable imagery, ideas around experiences that go beyond the formal nature of art. It is a deliberate attempt to break the habits and restraints that come through the adoption of learned techniques, pictorial devices and formal convention in order to achieve a greater immediacy of impulse. The property of line, shape, colour and paint quality forged to carry specific psychological objectives is a major concern in the phrasing of a visual language appropriate to my intentions. In the painting entitled Hors-d’oeuvre (Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, Greater London, England, SE1 8XX accession number: AC 5494) two canvases, one circular and one rectangular are juxtaposed. Disparate and reticent, yet seemingly embraced, they exist in symbiosis. http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/hors-doeuvre-63520