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  ROBERT DICKMAN/

Leicestershire > United Kingdom

I'm currently a mature student studying for a BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree. My work demostrates the complexities of materials & processes initially informed by studies in response to natural phenomena. The subject is eplored with a non-referencial approach by creating amalgamation compositions in response to minerals under the microscope, scientific concepts and organic matter. Through the use of mark-making and the handling of materials, exploration into suggetive parallels and transferable concepts are worked in contrast to the subject. Through this, identifying a particular mark and working using colour / mixed media, certain attributes of the visual propertiesare created; from which other characteristics appear through fluidity, shape and form.

Technical attributes to the surface, light and drying in the final presentation require certain tempretures, consistencies and pure pigment. This reveals translucency, flow and the contrasting effects of colours merging through a unified fluid relationship of chance & control. In spirations to my evolving development are intergral to the practice of Morris Louis, Dale Frank, Keith Tyson, & Edward Chell. These artist's all demonstrate the tension & illusion between colour and materilas, through an unconvetional painting process. The execution of colour and materials are about chance encounters that work with and against each other, methodically asserting control whilst appreciation for the unpredictability of fluidity and the nature of the medium.

The characteristics of my work can be interpreted differently as mark-making sections aren't necessarily intended to be representative to any particular form. This intention is to gain a certain originality to the visual properties of the compositions thus retaining varied readable attributes at the same time. The working process through development is 'key' to the exploration of a particular 'cause & effect' discovered by chance & techniques. Through diverse ways of application & manipulation the pieces prresent colour and paint in a unified surface, which reveals form, rhythm & transclucency. The subject of natural phenomena isn't alway readily seen by the naked eye, however' 'through process, the outside world enters the work & the work casts it's effects back into the world'.