Wendy Kelly, Geometric Progressions

28 May – 26 June
​Opening: Saturday 28 May, 2 - 4pm

​These works have developed from experimentation with the principles of chaos and order. The use of geometry and the grid, fundamentally ordered systems, is fractured so that the resulting surface has become chaotically irregular. Thread is used as a drawing tool to construct a complex lineal surface structure which is in turn painted and glazed with a rich and complex “almost monochrome” surface. As a result the works retain subtlety and unity regardless of the disrupted geometric rhythms and tensions. Light plays a critical role in that it is used more as a tool than as a subject.
 
This work demonstrates my continued research into non-objective abstraction in painting and its relevance in contemporary visual language. Non-objective abstraction has a freedom of material interpretation, an ability to incorporate an emotional expression and can provide a focus for quiet contemplation and engagement. The aim here is to produce work to which people can quietly relate, something that has a quality of intrigue. My interest is in processed based works that are slow to enter, yet are meant to be re-visited, in different lights and at different times or length of time.

​[Wendy Kelly CV]

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Traverse, 2016
Mixed technique on linen
61 x 51 cm

Silver Current, 2016
Mixed technique on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Ironstone, 2016
Mixed technique on canvas
92 x 92 cm

Indirect Current, 2016
Mixed technique on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Geometric Progressions 1, 2016
Mixed technique on linen
92 x 92 cm

Direct Indirect, 2016
Mixed technique on canvas
152.5 x 91.5 cm

Blue Current, 2016
Mixed technique on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Aztec, 2015
Mixed technique on canvas on board
34 x 34 cm

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