Andrew Carter

I have become increasingly involved with colour when drawing from personal experience, trying to reconfigure landscape and places into colour combinations. In this way I want to try and evoke a more real visual experience that is both specific to one experience but open to other interpretations. I draw, interpret, design and make. I also rely on chance and what happens on the day. My recent ‘Venice Pixellations’ (not shown in this exhibition) and subsequent landscapes – an ongoing series – are based on Smalti glass in Venetian Mosaic and a post -impressionist interest in colour modulation creating space and depth. Through using the shapes of colour as torn or broken fragments the work is to remain flat and decorative, whilst seeing how colour and drawing can suggest space. This contradiction of flatness and colour space is both musically abstract and getting closer to unnameable, unexplained feelings that underlie our experience of the world. The intuitive aim in this work is to celebrate the qualities of something that has been seen, experienced and felt. A balance between often contradicting opposites.