Solo exhibition by Luke Mitchell.
"This exhibition includes a large part of my work. I started painting after a visit to New Zealand in the height of summer. Compared to the cold bleak northern winter, it was a riot of colour. It took days for my eyes and mind to adjust to the new reality, and through this experience I began to see the world in a different way. Everything became interesting all of a sudden, and I started to observe my surroundings, everyday things that I'd never noticed before, colours, patterns, growth, beauty, ugliness and decay. When I returned to London, I felt an urgent need to translate my experience of the world into painting.
For me, art is about perception and communication. Perception has two main meanings: it is the ability to sense or become aware of something through the senses; and it is also the way in which something is regarded, understood or interpreted. So perception is both objective (the ability to sense) and subjective (how we understand and interpret what we sense). Given that each individual's senses operate differently, it is apparent that even the "objective" side of perception is actually very subjective.
When I became an artist I had an awakening: the world around me is alive with colour. Through art, I attempt to communicate what I perceive, and my primary tool of communication is colour. When I paint more representational pieces (i.e. artwork with recognisable subjects), I am conscious that I am not attempting to produce a copy of reality, but rather my interpretation of it. My abstract works are inspired by patterns in nature such as the light filtering through trees, or a multi-coloured flower bed, or an impression of a snapshot in time, perhaps a childhood memory or the remnants of a dream, or a motion or a resonance. They are attempts to convey a feeling or an idea."
EXHIBITION Information
28th September - 6th October 2019
Painting Exhibition
Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily