JOHN DUNSTERS ART
GALLERY
Born in England in 1966, I studied art in West Sussex and Sunderland,
obtaining an honours degree in 1988 as a glass sculptor using fuse-cast glass. I
have exhibited my glass work widely across the country with work in both public
and private collections.
Working as a sculptor, for commission and for my own development, painting and
drawing have been both an expression and a tool for research and development,
looking deeply into historical and multicultural influences. I now use painting
as my main form of expression.My paintings
are a continuation of a tradition of abstract art developed in response to
landscapes. In my own search I try to interpret, from my own standpoint, my
society’s feeling of empathy for environment through prominent features that
suggest the continuity of landscape beneath industrialised agriculture or that
epitomize the reverence for monumental vestiges of wilderness.
The sometimes formal development of images, sometimes intuitive, usually begins
with colour and linear sketches drawn on the spot or from memory. the paintings
retain echoes of landscape space in the deployment of shape and colour, whilst
becoming increasingly defined by the physical surface of paint: the handling and
mark-making.
I readily distort the scale and spatial arrangements of the physical elements
seen in the landscape and the paintings remain partly representative until each
piece asserts its own identity. I freely adapt the range, depth and contrast of
colours and repeatedly rework whole areas of the painting in response to the
shapes suggested. the layering of images allows the work to emerge with more or
less reference to the starting images. By blending and adjusting colours on the
canvas, the handling of this surface creates paintings that feature both
spontaneous and conserved elements.
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