Aidan Myers

Aidan Says: “My paintings are formed by a range of abstracted and gestural processes that entwine ideas inspired by figure and landscape.

I often paint away from specific, linear subject matter or direct narratives; instead the paintings exist on the cusp of being figurative fluctuating simultaneously between sections of landscape or as a close up renderings of human forms with no permanent fixation on either. This approach to painting is concerned more with the non-linear rather than depicting specific elements as a way for viewers to be more responsive to instinctive perceptions of the image informed by their own personal experiences; this can stimulate responses associated more with feeling and sensation.

The paintings have a full-frontal immediacy through their visual intensity, yet to spend time exploring their surfaces is to uncover the abundance of contradicting planes, fragments of ideas, blurs of colour all in continuous flux. This combines my instinctive mindset with intuitive approaches to painting.

Each painting exists as a self-informing entity where the connotations, tensions and overall visual information is constantly growing, shifting and adopting new energies within each composition. In one sense it can be considered that the images reveal everything and nothing all at once and over time.”