Artist in Focus - Getting to know Aidan Myers

Aidan is a contemporary artist living and painting in Cardiff. 

Often working in large scale format, the sheer size of the works allow the viewer to become completely immersed in Aidans vision. 

With frequent exhibitions both in Cardiff and London, Aidan has collectors both in the UK and internationally. His work suggests pose and distorted form while utilising the texture and contrast of the paints. The final forms often border on the sculptural, with the paint being applied using a broad range of tools and techniques.

Aidan says about his work -

“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."