alan morrisonalan morrison artist's statement

Morrison has removed himself from the tight Realism of past figurative work and is now embroiled in more investigative experimentation of technique and style. The richness and rawness of outside elements are now a source of inspiration . Cloud formations, variations in weather, sudden transformations are depicted in spontaneous brushmarks resulting in moments in time just lapsed.

Using torn calico on canvas, mixed media applications, Acrylic and Oil glazes and varnishes building colour by layer on layer with an underpainted abstract form escaping outwards.

These works are a shift to Expressionism using a mix of abstract forms linked with Old Realist approaches to create a form of hybrid. This method has broadened his perception of technique, loosening his style and enabling the work to be much rawer.

Abstract shapes suggesting forces at work within the normal environment; hidden yet very much viable in our present world. A sort of knowing; a sense that what you see is not necessarily the truth. Looking behind the façade to see the reality as, in human emotions.

Threatening, wild, emerging response, collisions, energy, abstractions, horizons, pockets of space, evoking returning to wilderness. He has kept the old style values but set them in the present, raw world.