Great Shroud

An abstracted landscape where the viewer can impose thier own imagination and mood to create the world this work depicts. Contrasted minimalist colour fields applied with a large palette knife and smoothed with a brush to evoke movement and demonstrates my love for immediacy in an artworks creation.

The repeating motif of seascapes, horizons and skyscapes incorporating two distinct colour field regions are a direct link to my Navy service experiences.

The work can represent an imagined alien landscape - but it is more that a landscape, the work is intended primarily as a colour field abstraction. Sometimes there's something more that can be revealed with careful viewing and a vivid imagination. This work represents a minimalist abstract landscape that implies an aerial view of a harbour or lake, or equally a cavern cutting horizontally through a limestone rock strata.

My aim when creating these minimalist imagined landscapes and colour field combinations is to illicit emotional responses, memories and feelings. My work suggests incompleteness so the viewer can fill in the space with their own subconscious and contemplate the idea of mortality, decay and the inevitable march of time.

This is a work on paper and requires matte backing and framing to hang.

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Jonathon Telcher (b.1972) Australian abstract painter.

Jon is interested in surface, paint texture, the interaction of muted colour and finding illusion in his minimalist technique and is continually searching for a pictorial style to evoke meaning . He applies paint with knife, scraper and brush, but is intent on eliminating the tell tale marks of application by removing brush marks, feathering and blending areas to create flat matte surfaces. He uses water on drying paint, softening the surface for excavation to expose underlying layers. The resulting drips and watermarks are intrinsic to the works development and point to the dynamic act of creation through destruction.

His dark minimalist compositions are meant to produce a sense of calm to produce space for the viewer to think about what the work means to them. Paintings are generally oriented vertically to create something that connects to Jon's past and the potential future as if searching from a window in the minds eye.

The work is intentionally contradictory, illusion within a minimalist framework and the goal of flat surfaces that are quite layered and textured.

The purpose is to elicit feeling, emotion and memory within himself and the audience for his work.