Life Palette. 6

This is the sixth in my Life Palette series, the oil palette is on both sides of the artwork. I dont know why this happened, I assume I was in a moment of excitement, ran out of room on one side of the palette to mix colours so I flipped it over. This one is the largest in the series so far, I generally used smaller surfaces but perhaps this was used for a larger scale artwork some time ago. I chose to paint my self on a larger scale on this work, I love the texture and layers and lumps of paint present on the work, to me its like a reflection of the depth of a person, all the intricacies and little blemishes and details that make someone who they are. The fact that there is paint on the other side of this work adds to this idea, there is more to the person than is visible on the surface.

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I find that my art enables me to express elements of my world that can't necessarily be seen by the naked eye, its an attempt at conveying something a bit intangible. Abstraction is the primary way I communicate my ideas and experiences in art.
The naive and somewhat primitive lines, shapes, colours and textures I use are my attempt at capturing the atmosphere, personality or feeling of a place or person I have encountered in my life, realism or a photograph in my opinion doesn't always capture these elements of the world.
I feel that my art brings these to the surface...it shows the soul of something, somewhere, or someone. Perhaps you will see someone you know within my strange works, maybe even yourself.