DANIEL PHILL
Artist Statement
My current paintings explore improvised botanical imagery using abstract
painterly processes. The works are a result of exploration and
discovery. I believe the most complex emotions can be evoked from the
simplest of forms, merging and emerging, interlocking and dividing. My
vocabulary
of color, shape, and texture are given form through movement.
The gestures, marks and scribbles found throughout my paintings are remnants of a process and journey, rather than simply compositional elements on a two-dimensional surface. My paintings evolve over the course of many layers, obliterating and revealing past histories of thought and action.
These abstract paintings are interpretations of vegetation and flowers that often tend to suggest landscapes. My interest in depicting imagery through the lens of abstraction informs my process. The ambiguity created by composing and dissolving of form creates a tension between abstraction, figuration, and the illusion of space.
Through pouring, dripping, scraping and smearing various viscosities of paint, I work to achieve images that are organic, spontaneous, and evolving. Raised levels of paint play an active role in defining form and establishing biomorphic shapes. Extended drips of and gestural paint - loaded brushstrokes help the paintings play between the boundaries of abstraction and representation.
The gestures, marks and scribbles found throughout my paintings are remnants of a process and journey, rather than simply compositional elements on a two-dimensional surface. My paintings evolve over the course of many layers, obliterating and revealing past histories of thought and action.
These abstract paintings are interpretations of vegetation and flowers that often tend to suggest landscapes. My interest in depicting imagery through the lens of abstraction informs my process. The ambiguity created by composing and dissolving of form creates a tension between abstraction, figuration, and the illusion of space.
Through pouring, dripping, scraping and smearing various viscosities of paint, I work to achieve images that are organic, spontaneous, and evolving. Raised levels of paint play an active role in defining form and establishing biomorphic shapes. Extended drips of and gestural paint - loaded brushstrokes help the paintings play between the boundaries of abstraction and representation.
