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explores the role of colour within, or as a basis for composition in spatial and surface treatment terms.

and arrangements extend the presence of the artwork within an interior space.

Alter Realism -Contemporary Still Life with Venus

The composition is formulated by the process subtraction thereby accentuating key aspects that then
create a new narrative of relationships. This form of approach focuses and hence brings out what would

be lost or diminished in the overall setting , and initial view. The painting or picture plane is sub-divided through
inter-weaving of applied colour fields that provide a sense of various depths of field each dissolving into the other
through adjacent boundaries or superposition of layers. The juxtaposition of the ornamental clock and the

Figure of Venus , period illustration of ancient ruins being viewed and spray of flowers form a narrative of
relative time.

Hatchlands, Surrey NT

The Saloon

Alter Realism-Contemporary Still Life with Venus