Jane Middleton
My paintings respond to the changing colours and play of light in my garden,the view from my studio stretching away towards the sea and places I experience while travelling. I work from photographs and drawings, reducing the subject to a grid then breaking down each square to a series of geometric shapes. I am using abstraction to generalize particular visual experiences: fragmentation of light through trees, the isolation of views and colour through open doors and windows, the illumination of the everyday world through positive and negative shapes; the sensations and responses I experience are expressed in paint. I layer and re-arrange the picture surface over a period of time breaking down the picture frame, the painting becomes a number of paintings, geometric webs and structures each worked over the last one in response to the complexity and colour of its predecessors. With each layer I work across the canvas and gradually the painting begins to emerge as the colours harmonize and rhythms evoke my initial feelings.
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