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Alex Ramsay
"Edge of Town 2" is from an ongoing series of paintings that are concerned with urban landscape and notions of travel. These paintings usually feature a single central image; a car, shopping trolley or a lonesome train… They contain a wide range of figurative references, which emerge from a primarily abstract painting process. I like to keep aspects of the painterly idioms that I have encountered during the journey of making the painting, in the completed picture; an aknowledgement of my own past, as well as that of the painting.
Through this dialectic relationship with the language of painting, I aim to focus mood, association and metaphor. To set up an interaction between real and imaginary worlds, that oscillates between the delights of image and facture. These painting have a comic dimension, in a downbeat, somewhat Freudian way. I would like them to be beautiful as well.
"Edge of Town 2" is from an ongoing series of paintings that are concerned with urban landscape and notions of travel. These paintings usually feature a single central image; a car, shopping trolley or a lonesome train… They contain a wide range of figurative references, which emerge from a primarily abstract painting process. I like to keep aspects of the painterly idioms that I have encountered during the journey of making the painting, in the completed picture; an aknowledgement of my own past, as well as that of the painting.
Through this dialectic relationship with the language of painting, I aim to focus mood, association and metaphor. To set up an interaction between real and imaginary worlds, that oscillates between the delights of image and facture. These painting have a comic dimension, in a downbeat, somewhat Freudian way. I would like them to be beautiful as well.
 Lonely Planet. Acrylic, alkyd, chalk, glitter on canvas. h200cm x w241cm |
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 Edge of Town, oil on canas, h175cm x w193cm, £3750 |