JAY BELMORE

My abstract paintings encourage a visual exploration that hinges on landscape and habitats with a fleeting nod to science. Painting has always been a good medium for me to experiment with the tensions between the real and the abstract, chaos and order, what we perceive and that, which truly exists. The texture and complexity of the surfaces often represent something active, unknown, while the geometric suggest structure and the quantifiable. Always remaining slightly detached from the outcome, I often work on a couple of paintings simultaneously. This way of working enables me to remove the preciousness from the work, opening the door for a new theme to emerge. I allow the surface, colour and composition to navigate me. This permits the direction to become more of a discovery rather than something predetermined.