The paintings I am currently making employ a reduced geometry which uses colour as a means of introducing movement and spatial complexity.
The paintings I am currently making employ a reduced geometry which uses colour as a means of introducing movement and spatial complexity.
I am interested in the instability of colours placed adjacently and their interaction with the pictorial architectonic.
The spaces and compositional arrangement can suggest shallow illusionistic spaces- in part influenced by my encounters with the many trompe l’oeildevices employed in Italian wall painting from Roman times through to the quattrocento and where the materiality of surface is seen in conversation with the depicted narrative address.
These geometric armatures are often derived from an underlying diagonal grid or else they are connecting - linear divisions which move out and across from the canvas edges. The paintings are composed through a process of looking, adjusting and a felt relationship with the colour and spaces generated - often suggesting place or an effect of light on architecture
My work is very influenced by Italian painting traditions, especially those seen in wall paintings and frescos where the materiality of surface is in conversation with the depicted narrative.
I use colour intuitively, getting a sense or feel for how a painting might develop so in this way each work is essentially open ended - they are not planned or filled in but arrived at through the internal dialogue with their making as well as reflecting things seen or remembered.
Sharon Hall
9.07.25
