'Glimmer', painting exhibited as part of 'Dark Lantern', curated by Paul Morrison

'Glimmer', acrylic on un-primed canvas, 2019, 20” x 16” - Dark Lantern, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, curated by Paul Morrison.- Exhibition ‘Glimmer’ is a starting point. Glimmer is a small painting. It is made with two colours, viridian green and quinacridone magenta. They are painted onto raw, un-primed canvas, which absorbs and is coated by this gossamer of colour. Fibres are stained, they become the hue. A new surface emerges, which is re-coated with its opposite colour, creating an equilibrium, an equation, a means to cancel out it’s individuality and become achromatic. This skin of paint is formed by the edge of a series of co-joined arcs, that infer the parabola of a ruched curtain where light peeks through. Glimmer was conceived in response to the death of relative. It returns to a memory of final moments, being in a room with curtains drawn against the hot light of the day. It becomes a space between the real and the un-real, between figure and abstraction. Glimmer is a painting made in response to the materiality of paint and the ephemerality of life.