ERIC SHAW When viewing your paintings I feel a strong relationship to the digital world, does technology play a role in your process? The inspiration comes from the assimilation of common elements which are typical for commercial design and road signs and which are further developed and transported into digital sketches, which in turn gradually become more and more distant from their relation to reality. Your works are comprised of a very original color palette, how do you arrive at the color choices while maintaining unity within the work?
Once there’s enough paint on the canvas I start to think about the relationship of the colors and shapes surrounding the first form. Towards the end of the painting I will consider the colors as a whole and try to work in a sort of connection, looking for color relationships that weave in and out across the landscape. Through the layering of shape and form, you are thrusting the viewer into an all encompassing environment. What experience do you strive to impart on the viewer? I’d like the viewer to gain a sense of familiarity with an abstract language; I’ve always been fascinated by that.
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