Artist Information:
Keith Garrow
Horsham,
United Kingdom
Member Since: Jul 2003
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Artist Statement:
My paintings inhabit the
ground between abstraction and
figuration, not concrete
enough to be one thing only,
but able to be different
things to different people; a
springboard for the
imagination, like the fleeting
shapes we see in clouds. What
the viewer brings to the work
plays an important part in
what they see and what they
take away with them.
I begin my work by making
random marks on the canvas,
without any preconceived ideas
at all of what the finished
work is going to look like.
Chance and accident are used
to provide the starting point
for each work. I find that
the shapes, structures and
relationships created in this
way have much more power and
resonance than anything I
could create by conscious
design alone.
The paintings are in a
constant state of flux. The
things I choose to develop,
the shapes I leave, the
elements I paint over, the
colours I use - all these
things are inevitably a
product of my own experience,
memories and environment. The
paintings are built up in many
layers, with fragments of
earlier work contributing to
the finished piece in ways
that could not have been
conceived when the paint was
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Keith Garrow's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Keith Garrow's Portfolio.
My paintings inhabit the ground between abstraction and figuration, not concrete enough to be one thing only, but able to be different things to different people; a springboard for the imagination, like the fleeting shapes we see in clouds. What the viewer brings to the work plays an important part in what they see and what they take away with them.
I begin my work by making random marks on the canvas, without any preconceived ideas at all of what the finished work is going to look like. Chance and accident are used to provide the starting point for each work. I find that the shapes, structures and relationships created in this way have much more power and resonance than anything I could create by conscious design alone.
The paintings are in a constant state of flux. The things I choose to develop, the shapes I leave, the elements I paint over, the colours I use - all these things are inevitably a product of my own experience, memories and environment. The paintings are built up in many layers, with fragments of earlier work contributing to the finished piece in ways that could not have been conceived when the paint was ... |
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