Explorare 2

This large-scale work unfolds as a topography of exploration—both external and internal. Veiled beneath a visceral red ground, the layered forms and sweeping arcs evoke shifting geographies and emotional currents, blurring the boundary between landscape and psyche. The dynamic, ribbon-like lines, punctuated with rhythmic intervals of colour, act as both pathways and disruptions—suggesting routes taken, decisions made, or thoughts that spiral in and out of focus.
Informed by the language of abstract expressionism, the painting resists fixed interpretation, instead offering a field of intuitive navigation. Here, exploration is not merely a destination but an ongoing gesture—of seeking, mapping, and reconfiguring one’s place within the vastness of experience.

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In addition to being a multi-award-winning filmmaker and author, Martin Guinness is also an abstract expressionist artist.

He recently wrote this: ​"One of the things I really like about abstract expressionism is its mutability factor. You might have something in mind that you’re going to paint, but then spontaneity and intuition take over and the existential experience means that the painting tells its own story. And the outcome is generally much better than the original idea would have been."

With a nod towards great expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Clyfford Still, my work often makes a statement about paint itself and surface, with its application being foregrounded. My university education in psychology also leads to a neo-surrealist focus on the subconscious and Carl Jung’s theories about the collective unconscious

​Much of what inspires my work comes from the imaginings of nature: from the vast to the minuscule, from an image of deep space to an extra close-up photograph of a virus.

​Recently exhibited at the Pyrmont Prize and Incognito exhibitions and at Sydney galleries The Tap Gallery and The Ochredfern Gallery

​​Come and visit me in my studio in Woollahra, NSW