Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the back.

An abstraction technique involving hard edged, curved contours. The highly stylized colours and imagery was inspired by oxidised rock formations.

This work titled ‘Mineral Metaphysik’ is an early stage in a series I call ‘AMV’, (Animal Vegetable Mineral) this one being derived from a study of oxidation on a rock surface. I wished to create a work that had a kind of contained energy and used forms that hinted at the gestural but are deliberately diverted into an entrapped dynamism with the colours and shapes providing the visual momentum. I was inspired to explore this emerging idea further by using a hard-edged treatment that has the fluidity and harmony of tessellated forms.