Sam Turpin

Water and paint colliding, creating chemical reactions and chance happenings, where pools, stains, marks, harmonies and conflicts share the same surface. Lines of acrylic emerge through skeins of paint from the chaos, serving to define and form the space on the picture plane. From afar the abstract marks can appear to follow natural forms as if a landscape, where the planes of washes blend together. In some instances contour have formed beneath the sedimentary manifestations, relating material relationships to the natural world. The canvas is a document collecting a material history; absorbing the mistakes which are evidence of the risks taken in its creation. Artistic control is a constant battle, but one that is embraced: the geometric lines attempting to bring balance and order to the chaos whilst disrupting the ebbing and free-flowing nature of the paint.