Colour Gallery
The newest works are a series of large, portrait format, abstracts that echo landscape.
Landscape is a difficult genre in contemporary art practice and presents a painter with a number of unavoidable problems; originality, form, content. There are always the pitfalls of the political, picturesque and pretty, to do battle with. Therefore these works rely on the material itself to create an idea of an image in the mind's eye.
The stretched canvases, flooded with acrylic and water based ink, eight in all, each representing the colours of the rainbow, create landscapes of the heart. They allow for a space that alludes to the magnificent natural spaces of Botswana.
In exhibition the landscape series was accompanied by a series of short haikuesque poems by visual artist, poet and performer Ngozi Chukura. Ngozi has written a piece to each colour: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The words make passionate and sublime companions to each 'landscape'. November 2010 .
