Construct

CONSTRUCT 2nd - 27th September 2017

ELE PACK HANNA TEN DOORNKAAT ELFYN LEWIS JAI LLEWELLYN

CONSTRUCT 2nd - 27th September 2017

ELE PACK HANNA TEN DOORNKAAT ELFYN LEWIS JAI LLEWELLYN Four artists each with their own visual language using line, form, colour and layer.

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E L E PA C K Using pattern and mark to create rhythm, Pack uses a range of materials; paint, pencil, fabric, collage, metallics, and build up the paintings in a very organic way overlaying layers of paint, mark and collage to build up the pictorial space. This creates glimpses, hidden spaces, things half shown, suggested. Pack uses delicate layers of texture, drawing and colour to create an ambiguous space. The image is then worked and re-worked until the image is “found�. Only when a balance and integration is achieved the painting is finished.

And the Ocean Sings to Me 120cm x 100cm Mixed Media on Canvas

Alove & Below, 120cm x 100cm

Mixed Media on Canvas

Cloud Whispers, 100cm x 100cm Mixed Media on Canvas

H A N N A T E N D O O R N K A AT German artist Hanna ten Doornkaat lives and works in the UK. Her work explores the process and meaning of drawing. The repetition of marks and lines often within a grid structure are regularly recurring motives. The laborious weaving and layering of surfaces creates fragments of something that is no longer there and moves between the visible and the invisible. ten Doornkaat’s intricate drawings explore mark-making as compound memory.

Constructed from layer upon layer of rectilinear geometries, obsessively serialised marks and lines, her work incorporates process as signifier of human response to both the experiential, as defined by materials and memory, and the mind’s abstract construction of form and meaning.

o.T.009/2017, 25cm x 20cm

Acrylics, Graphite Pencil, Wax on Plyboard

LfA 001/2016, 25cm x 20cm

Acrylics, Graphite Pencil on Plyboard

o.T.010/2017, 25cm x 20cm

Acrylics, Graphite Pencil, Wax on Plyboard

Comfortably numb I 2017, 25cm x 20cm

Acrylics, Graphite Pencil on Plyboard

ELFYN LEWIS Surfaces are layered with paint that overflows, dripping. Congested, thick impasto paint has been pushed and forced to create a painting, which is also an object of desire. These paintings are layered time after time until the upper layer explodes and transforms from its volcanic creation into a vivid landscape. These are eruptions of colour and beauty intended to transfix the viewer.

Addoli, 6 x 9 inches

Acrylic on paper on mdf

Treban, 9.5 x 10 inches

Acrylic on paper on mdf

Fron Haul, 9.5 x 10 inches

Acrylic on paper on mdf

J A I L L E W E L LY N For me painting is a very physical activity, I need to feel a physical connection with the canvas, the paint and colour to create an emotional attachment. The painting needs to be beaten into shape to become mine, an extension of my physical being, before any kind of feeling is present. Everything needs to happen in the painting, I don’t rehearse or plan, I want my mistakes and workings to all be present on the canvas. When a painting is finished, a part of me has left.

Stuck Like Glue, 33cm x 41cm Oil on Canvas

Over Lap, 41cm x 33cm Oil on Canvas

&Gallery, 17 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QG andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk