Peter Rossiter - Upper Gallery

Recent Works

1 May - 31 May 2006

Artist's Statement

Paint for a painter is like words for a writer; sometimes I find myself so enthralled with a new tube of oil paint, each colour speaks to me with its own emotional pull, each pigment behaves with its own characteristics or peculiarities.

Colour has always been my main strength but many recent works express a renewed emphasis on effects of light. It started last spring when photographing the contrasting patterns of light and shade in a flooded lane behind our house, watching the mirroring effect of light on rippled water, and the chance imagery of dissolving shadows. I went out in all weathers sometimes with the muddy water close to the top of my Wellingtons watching and recording the changing patterns of light.

This winter I found myself more and more aware of the subtle gradations, from hard to soft lines, one finds them everywhere in nature. In my canvasses I have attempted to utilise some of this, and the natural language of translated forms. I love to see nature though its natural filters: like the transformation of the world seen through a window washed with rain, sleet or snow, everything simplified and increasingly distorted to the point where it is no longer recognisable. I suppose if I went back and lived in a city, it would be the street lights and shiny shop fronts reflected in the wet pavements that would delight me, but I believe there is something special about "natural filters".

I have used the digital camera not aiming for photographic perfection, but actually the opposite, pushing it to the very limits of its capabilities where the image struggles with the hard facts of the "real world" and so called "reality", to create something almost unrecognisable and yet familiar.

I believe that this is part of the function of abstract painting, to illustrate an inner vision, amid a world stuffed full of recognisable and named objects, to create images of unnamed things. To help us see again freshly as if for the first time.

Peter Rossiter 2006

Also showing at Mwldan Lower Gallery - Angharad Taris 'Attachment'

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