Emerging Artist Award 2021
PANDEMONIUM
PANDEMONIUM
119 X 119 X 3.8cm
ACRYLIC & EMULSION ON CANVAS
Painted during early lockdown, this piece expresses both the frustration and confusion of those early months, as well as continuing my exploration of ideas based around Absurdism and chaos and emotional complexity.
This piece has many layers, not only visible layers but many underlying ones that speak of previous incarnations and add a visible textural element to the painting, which only increases the sense of endless movement and unseen or half glimpsed activity within the painting.
Hannah Thomas
My work is based around life’s refusal to be simply defined or simply lived, hoping to emotionally transmit a mood and a sense of a vivid world that remains unexplained and open to interpretation. I am exploring ideas of Absurdism and building on my previous themes of chaos and conflicting emotional states.
Mine is a tactile process of applying and then partially removing materials from the canvas; the aim is a multi layered and textural result, with half seen elements and hints of movement. I use acrylics as their quick drying properties suit my technique and also my personality, I’m an impatient painter.
I am pursuing an undercurrent of darkness, creating a sense of complexity and ambiguity within the boundaries of the painting; pockets of resistance that serve to obfuscate and remain unresolved.