Studio Sale | Scott Bauer

An element of expressionism has been creeping into my work of late. Here the push and pull of the vertical rhythms has the effect of movement, like a big brush loaded with paint moving in both directions over the canvas. Like most of my work, the process of painting Undercurrents involved blocking in large areas of dark and light and then articulating thinner lines of colour and tone, blending strong primary colours with greys, blacks and whites to achieve the subtleties of tone throughout the work. The title is a reference to the way the work was originally formatted; I turned the canvas 180 degrees during the process, allowing the flow of lines that had been pouring down the canvas to flow up, giving the work a more painterly quality.