Amanda Barrington-Evans

Biography

Exhibitions - Gallery Guide Links
2007 Oct 23		- Main Concourse, Southampton
2008 Jul 18		The Art of Water - Southampton City Gallery, Southampton
Exhibitions - Full Listings
18th July - 7th September 2008		The Art of Water, Open Exhibition, Southampton City Gallery
23rd Oct 2007 - Summer 2008		Intuitions, solo exhibition, Concourse Gallery, Southampton Solent University, Southampton
2007		The Distance Between, Poole Quay, Poole
2007		Degree Show Southampton Solent University
2007		Aspects of Painting, Northam Road Gallery, Southampton
2007		Saatchionline, online gallery
2007		compelloart, online gallery
2004		Study Gallery, Poole
2003		Study Gallery, Poole

Statement

My work at present is abstract and still evolving, playing with the relationships of the colours to each other, the surface and the viewer, whilst keeping in mind the element of attraction and beauty to draw the viewer in for closer examination. Each canvas has many layers of colour as a base to create intensity that buzzes against the areas of painting on its surface, the visual conflict is important to enable the optical resonance of the finished image. Texture, gloss and colour are used tempting the viewer to break the taboo about art and crave to caress the surface. Works are mostly untitled so as to add to their ambiguity, making the viewer use their imagination to find a connection with the real, thus returning them to a comfort zone of reality. All these elements of boundaries are important in the work, as this is primarily their essence, the rebellion of conformity, the pushing of acceptance, the boundaries of medium, artist and viewer. The photographic work usually starts as research and ends up being about something else that's formed a connection through the lens. An element of sub consciousness in the work leads to images that are instinctive and natural not staged or constructed by premeditated ideals.
A collection of previous works is exhibited to express the learning curve to the present methodology. They also give an insight into creative possibilities for future diversities as often elements of earlier work can be detected in the present.