Glisse 2008 Oil on board 40.8cm x 38.4cm
Artist Statement:
In my oil paintings there are elements of landscape, abstraction, pattern and painterly expressionism; never figures, but sometimes traces of human presence and always the ambition to render an emotional dimension through colour and the physical properties of oil paint. Conversely when designing I work with simplified shapes derived from known things. I tend to avoid symmetry as it seems too artificial. I admire the works of Sergei Poliakoff, Ian McKeever, Prunella Clough and Eduardo Chillida.
Genre:
2D: painting and design
Contact:
email: itsabsolon[at]blueyonder.co.uk please replace [at] with @
Website under construction
CV:
University College, London, BA (Hons) Modern Iberian & Latin American Studies
West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham, BA (Hons) Fine Art – 1st class
Central St Martins School of Art, London, post graduate painting course
1986 Finalist, Winsor & Newton Young Artists Awards, Mall Galleries, London
1987 Young Unknowns Gallery, London SE1
1988 The Art House, London SW14
1989 ‘Celebration’ South Bank Photo Show, London SE1
1990 ‘East Meets West’, East West Gallery, London W11
1993 ‘Identikit’ at Pixley Street Studios, London E3
1994 The Affordable Art Company, Connaught Brown Gallery, London SW1
1995 Tecno UK Ltd., London W1 – solo exhibition of paintings and rug designs
1995 + Kappa Lambda Rugs, London NW5
‘Colour’, ‘Urban Swing’ ‘Liquide’ ‘Point’ and ‘Ardennes’ solo collections
Purves & Purves, London W1 – solo exhibition of rugs
1996 ‘Dunkelbunt’ rug for Christopher Farr, London
1997 Private commission - rug for a country house
2004 Ernst & Young, London SE1 – rug commission for head office
2007 Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex – Quentin Follies
‘Tent London’, Truman Brewery, London E1
‘Sleep’ Old Billingsgate Market, London EC3
Bibliography
‘Contemporary Rugs’ by Christopher Farr, Matthew Bourne, Fiona Leslie – Merrell, 2002
Events & Collections
Paintings have been bought by private collectors in the UK, Eire, France and the USA. Rugs that I have designed are in many residential, corporate and commercial premises in the UK and abroad. Rugs have also been included in major design and media events in the UK and abroad including 100% Design, ‘UK Now!’ (Melbourne) , ‘Best of British’ (Canary Wharf), ‘TGI Friday’ (Channel 4)
2008 Exhibitions:
Charleston Farmhouse, Lewes, East Sussex – the Quentin Follies Auction
‘Imagine’ visual arts week, London Borough of Sutton at Honeywood House
Oaks Park Studios, Sutton
Further examples of work:
Her Secret Garden, 1 2008 oil on board 40.5cm x 38cm
D’Eau 2005 gouache on paper 22cm diameter
