2011 -
Responding to textures, drips, creases, edges, fibres of paper, the space the pieces are created in, and rips and tears of the support (often results of the way the paint has been applied) all play into the making of the pieces and are integral to the process. This body of work has began to explore the work in actual space, creating constructions through collage that transcend the picture plane. By the actions of ripping and tearing, elements of the pieces overlap and react with each other, physically pushing areas backwards and forwards. By responding to these elements through reworking the pieces, the structure and support of the piece often becomes the painting itself.
It has taken many years to gain the experience and understanding into my engagement with the medium which has resulted in my being able to work in this way, often very quickly relying on my instinct, intuition and experience of the medium and my way of working. Working quickly and 'in the moment' allows me to create a dialogue with the painting, having a conversation in some ways, responding to changing form and colour as the process develops and the painting matures. This results in a process of Improvisation best likened to music, Free Jazz and the improvised solo in more traditional Jazz.
Adam Blackburn 2012
It has taken many years to gain the experience and understanding into my engagement with the medium which has resulted in my being able to work in this way, often very quickly relying on my instinct, intuition and experience of the medium and my way of working. Working quickly and 'in the moment' allows me to create a dialogue with the painting, having a conversation in some ways, responding to changing form and colour as the process develops and the painting matures. This results in a process of Improvisation best likened to music, Free Jazz and the improvised solo in more traditional Jazz.
Adam Blackburn 2012
2009 - 2011
This body of work consist of pieces that in their un-representational style and re-interpretation of the world as I observe it leave the viewer free to interpret and to imagine.
With the inspirations for the work being found almost anywhere, textures on walls, dog walkers on the beach, or simply the response to paint itself, the overriding origin of the work is landscape and the space we inhabit around us. Through the use of my feelings and emotions I paint not the landscape as subject but landscape experience as a source. Through distancing myself from the traditional definitions and connotations of ‘landscape’, though still remaining recognisable in the space, 'I paint the environment rather than view, and air rather than sky'. Peter Lanyon
The paintings use abstraction as an expression of subjective experience combining a physical and emotional charge through their use of colour and scale. The pieces seek to combine an interlocking of image and paint as is reflected in the methods of spreading, pouring, brushing and gesture which is employed to give the paintings a spontaneous quality and a nature that they are living, moving, and existing.
My paintings offer reflections of life and of existing. The tensions and struggles of which can be seen in the sometimes un-symmetrical and inharmonious tensions of the finished pieces. I seek to express a language of paint that can act as a transport for feeling, appealing directly to the viewers emotions.
Adam Blackburn 2010
With the inspirations for the work being found almost anywhere, textures on walls, dog walkers on the beach, or simply the response to paint itself, the overriding origin of the work is landscape and the space we inhabit around us. Through the use of my feelings and emotions I paint not the landscape as subject but landscape experience as a source. Through distancing myself from the traditional definitions and connotations of ‘landscape’, though still remaining recognisable in the space, 'I paint the environment rather than view, and air rather than sky'. Peter Lanyon
The paintings use abstraction as an expression of subjective experience combining a physical and emotional charge through their use of colour and scale. The pieces seek to combine an interlocking of image and paint as is reflected in the methods of spreading, pouring, brushing and gesture which is employed to give the paintings a spontaneous quality and a nature that they are living, moving, and existing.
My paintings offer reflections of life and of existing. The tensions and struggles of which can be seen in the sometimes un-symmetrical and inharmonious tensions of the finished pieces. I seek to express a language of paint that can act as a transport for feeling, appealing directly to the viewers emotions.
Adam Blackburn 2010
