Void, framed painting by Sean McDowell

Description

‘Void’ continues the artists ongoing experimentation with materials and fabrication processes. The work has been informed by a range of disciplines spanning from planetary sciences, including astronomy and geology – to psychology, art history and museology. The painting is informed by otherworldly atmospheres and natural ecologies. Located between representation and abstraction – observation and the imagination, the work represents portals to imagined landscapes that are communicated through a range of energetic gestures and cryptic symbols. It contains its own fictional narrative intertwined with personal memories of place – considering natural elements such as the sky, water, wind and fire combined with scientific iconography that references the cosmos. Examining the effects of colour and form on emotionality and experience, ‘Void’ reflects psychological states that shift and fluctuate – as atoms, gasses, constellations, and extra-terrestrial forces slowly reveal themselves across the pictorial field.