Jonathon Telcher (b.1972) Australian abstract painter.
His love of art history and ongoing technical education influences his creative practice. There are repeating motifs of seascape, horizon, sky and decaying surface which are a direct link to his Navy service experiences. Jonathon's art is raw, executed quickly as minimalist colour field abstractions that hint at underlying emotion and serenity. The work implies land and sea scape suggesting incompleteness so the viewer can transform the work through their own preconceived idea's. The work is often dark and brooding, with the colour field elements rarely uniform.
Jon's imagery includes horizons, dark grounds and lighter area's implying skies that incorporate an industrial decay representing the degradation of the human condition and the inevitable fall of civilisation.
The work can be described as a broadly minimalist, but differing from pure minimalism as it contains visual illusions. His process is quite simple, without pre-planning he lays down shapes with a knife and trowel, building layers and repeating the process with a limited colour palette until a satisfactory surface and image emerges. There is a fusion of automatism and volition in his works which is pursued to enhance the abstracted nature of his practice - there is no such thing as accident or mistake, it all comes from the subconscious - it could be considered 'process art'.
Jonathon hopes that his works convey meaning through the imagery that develops through his technique.