Edgescape : sylte

I recently showed this textural abstract landscape painting in an exhibition entitled colour values (with two other artists), at the Halesworth Galleryedgescape:sylte, mixed media on panel, 95cm x 95cm framed.sylte, detail.a close-up of edgescape : sylte 2006... it merges from a textured, crumbled brown-bronze black into a more mellow, eroded stone-like surface... again, not applied paint, but a myriad of negative paint traces, underlying textures through the removal of layers, a process which i believe is formally called grattage...silt, when separated from mud, is quite exquisite, almost shimmering fragments of sand and other mineral traces... the marsh river valley where i live is very windswept and the roads flood frequently, mud and silt in various forms is a regular rural encounter... i was pleased with the outcome, achieving a soft gradation from brown to grey-green, but it was hell to photograph...here are some images of the painting as a work in progress, from early 2006...04 january 2006...16 march 2006...25 march 2006...view more abstract paintings in this series...