Blockage Mixed Media

An abstract piece created by layering and removing blocks and lines of willow charcoal, compressed charcoal and pastel, on white paper. This piece was created purely from imagination with no reference. It is sold in a silver frame measuring 40x50cms, with a white mount (aperture measuring approximately 29 cms x 39 cms) behind perspex.

My primary style is realism, but increasingly over the last few months I have experimented with abstraction. I find the act of just working with materials that you know well, without an end goal in mind, a very therapeutic exercise. The work emerges by responding to changes during the process of creation itself and you find yourself looking for balance and harmony as the work emerges. Charcoal is a very expressive and forgiving media, that allows for major changes as the work develops. There were several obliterations of parts of the work during the process, but ghosts of these earlier works remain in the finished piece, which hopefully has balance and rhythm.