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SUMMER 2008 UPDATE - WORK CHOSEN BY EDGAR MODERN GALLERY (www.edgarmodern.com) FOR AUGUST EXHIBITION
"Painting as a physical act comes at a time of distillation in my working process. It can be a mental distillation; sifting through thoughts of places, memories, and ideas, arriving at an 'ideal' composition that one interprets as the result of, or solution to, specific concerns at a specific time and place. Consecutively, it can also be a methodological distillation; the refinement of ways in which one applies, layers, and contrasts several materials, tones, and textures to create the effect one wishes a viewer to experience. To be working at the brink of what one can both conceive and execute is to be in a favourable state. However, never knowing what may constitute the make-up of ones thoughts yet to come, or the altered impressions of a colour or shape in changing light, I find myself more often than not standing in front of finished pieces and blank canvases with only preparedness and determination to work with.
As a personal and intellectual source, the majority of my work references the natural world in its compositional structure and its objective suggestions. It is in the natural world - moving through landscapes, passing from terrain to terrain, seeing the matter-of-fact contrast between forms and their surroundings - that I am happiest in actuality and in my frame of mind. I find no greater combinations of colour, form, emotion, or self-awareness than in wide and natural landscapes that tell the stories of their elements and of their evolving lives. I create pieces that I hope will 'perform' in the home or space of their owners, where the changing light of its hanging space and the evolving temperament of its viewers will continue to suggest and reveal close links with the places we've been and the things we share with them. "
Al Greenall - Summer 2008
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