Simon Palmer, Alluvial Plain II, 2024. Acrylic on board, 26x25cm, Limed-timber shadow box frame.
Simon Palmer - what i thought i saw
Online Exhibition Dates: April 14th - 28th
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“What I Thought I Saw” Embodies a series of abstract landscape paintings that have their genesis as depictions of real locations – which after the initial base-painting, are transformed by artistic whim – by emotive alteration of topography, forms and colours – to show a more idealised impression of places that are as much imaginary as they are factual.
They invoke a consideration of painterly elements – that might be variously interpreted as vegetation, hillside, shadowed forms or open ground – that are as equally dependent on the viewer’s own preferences and memories as they are on the manner of artistic representation.
Historically my work has been associated with strong colours and also the investigation of ‘edges’ – between representation and abstraction, and also the physical nature of edges of paint; whether hard or loose delineations, or the soft blending of paint, each specifically chosen to better evoke moods and create bold visual effects.
Simon Palmer, What I Thought I Saw, The Corner Store Gallery.
Simon Palmer, Bushfire Haze, 2024. Acrylic on board, 26x25cm. Limed-timber shadow box frame.
Simon Palmer, Dirt Road III, 2024. Acrylic on board, 13x23cm, Limed-timber shadow box frame.