Artist Statement.

	The work in this exhibition is the result of a number of processes. Primarily it is an attempt to show how an idea about developing shapes in composition, plays itself out through several different media.  Also it is an attempt to develop the illusion of space within composition to suggest or elucidate different sensations. As you will note the works do not offer any comment or engage in any social dimension, rather they are completely subjective ideas concerning the pictorial development of sensations that are visual. The idea that we search for a referent to help in the deciphering of this visual information is a fundamental step in the process of understanding them. The general theme is an appreciation of the organic, both in the process of studying the natural world and engaging with it in a visual sense. The fact that you are here looking at art may be the most important and profound part of your commitment to the honouring of this visual contract.  The idea that surrendering yourself to the process of looking may provide an adjustment in the way in which you both look at and anticipate looking at or being in the world, is to allow the fundamental elements and principles of visual language a place in which to operate. This can be positive, meditative and pleasurable. I am attempting to activate this place.
	My primary mode of working is the pen drawing; these drawings come about with very little fore thought. They hopefully evoke a sense of hovering, meditative weightlessness.  I often used to think of the vertically oriented ones as filling the interior cavity of our thorax or hanging onto a spine of sorts, I have been working like this for about 10 years. My secondary mode of working is in oil paint and I have often divided my attention into several areas; inventing landscapes that theatrically engage the viewer or recording actual places and adjusting them or adding visual ideas that may make you conscious of the process of looking. The watercolour paintings and oil pastels are a way of combining the immediacy of drawing and the theatre of colour to suggest place and movement into it.
	My work seems inescapably tied to the landscape and evoking a sense of place.  When I first embarked on describing place as we experience it, I was making light of the traditional mode of frontal presentation of the landscape as limiting factor. I am still working with this and the embodiment of ideas of perspective orientation is a subject as well, within the paintings. I am primarily concerned with making shapes and forms that both contain a sense of an original visual experience of the world a playful remaking of it. Hope you enjoy.  Thank you Gary Evans