Artist Statement

My recent work,"Constellation Series" are personal metaphors. The paintings evolve and are developed from automatic scribble drawing. Recognition of the final form of each work is discovered in the process of negotiating the visual elements of the work while making the paintings. "Automatism" is my chosen method and process of developing my images as it provides me with a very dangerous,but direct way of making paintings, that I find exciting and challenging. This process also allows me the freedom and possibility of making primal and immediate drawing action on the canvas whereby a successful chance occurance between elements becomes the highest form of discovery, responsibility and exultation in the creative process. The organic calligraphy, that is in all the work, is a autobiographical statement of a particular drawing process as I make the motions that make the marks ,that determine the abstract space which is the formal content in all the work. The paintings are metaphysically felt, automatic impulse becomes gesture and then visual sign for entry into an imagined genesis and universe outside and beyond myself.

 Richard Halliday R.C.A.