PAINTING
Jon Harrison
Jon Harrison graduated from Birmingham School of Art 1980-83. The dynamic quality and freshness of vision involves a dark lyricism which is important to the personification of the work. 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 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. 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.
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. 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.