MARK ELLIOTT SMITH
Mark Elliott Smith explores the realms of suggestive, enigmatic apparitions, seeing thoughts and ideas as patterns which interact to define the optimum image in new shapes and configurations. His large abstract canvases are worked in pure colours with vivid, clean edged forms with playful and energetic elements. Paint is laid on flat with a brush to a smooth crisp finish, while a dynamic illusion of three dimensions is created through the placement of form and colour. Through altering and dramatising the scale of his preparatory, often very small drawings, and representing chance actions in a controlled and deliberate way, the process of painting reveals and amplifies previously hidden information, both visual and psychological, and hints at some kind of narrative beyond the viewer’s conscious grasp. What is sought is a combination of spontaneity and control; a chaotic precision that extracts and re-presents the lost and found on an epic scale. Likewise, the titles of his paintings, though they parallel rather than describe the work, are precise and are chosen to function as micro-poems analogous to the images as they emerge and are defined.
The Interconnecting Energy Of Unifying Elements (160 x 160 cm)
The Phantasmagoric Symphony Of Soundscapes On The Wing (75 x 75 cm)
Parading With The Jester In The Details Of My Mind (75 x 75 cm)
Moving Bricks In A Kaleidoscopic Wall Without Permanence Or Focus (100 x 100cm)
Clapping Backwards Through A Lemon Drop in a Lightning Storm (100 x 100 cm)
Dancing With Fire, Touching The Sky, Kissing The Sun (160 x 160 cm)
Leaping Through The Heart Of God (150 x 150 cm)
Rocking With The Weapons Of Creation And Destruction (160 x 160 cm)
The Battle Of All Possibilities Great And Small In They Eye Of A Needle (160 x 160 cm)
The Cataclysmic Conundrum Of Undeterminable Forces (160 x 160 cm)
The Fixed But Fluid Pattern Of Absolute Suggestion (160 x 160 cm)
Solace (54 x 42 cm)
Resonance (54 x 42 cm)
Radiance (54 x 42 cm)