Harry Jepson
United Kingdom
http://http://www.artreview.com/profile/HarryJepson
category: Painting
technique: Oilpainting
Style: Abstract
Bio / Resumee / Statement:
These last three years of painting have come to represent a personal liberation in terms of creative instinct. My initial decisions were to make work celebrating the mid-twentieth century schools of abstract art that I most admire, and to be unashamedly decorative in the sense of a classical non-programmatic aesthetic. More particularly, I sought to \'play\'; to extemporise without intent. The rest has been a discovery through trial and error, and it is only in retrospect that I feel able to discuss themes and content, or understand an overview of process. The work continues to evolve slowly by tiny increment.
Each new canvas is approached with an arbitrary gesture. Over a period of weeks, months, or years, and living with several paintings in various states of completion, I allow the materials, my formal instinct, shifting mood and current interests to inform further gestures and development until the work is complete. In this way, and by the employment of various non-brush techniques and countless ˜happy accidents\", I aim to achieve an appearance of the organic, working towards compositions that feel grown through a process of osmosis. I am influenced by an inner catalogue of ˜beautiful-things-seen\", usually from natural sources, though sometimes I see emerging the memory of an ancient stone wall, or a poignant graffiti, or light shining through a glass vessel. Most of the work takes place nocturnally when I am most focussed and much of the world is asleep.
It feels safe to say that the resulting paintings are informed by a life\'s love of music as listener, performer and composer. Reflected within this is my interest in measured time and movement. Some of the paintings appear to depict abstract narratives and linear movements respecting the eye\'s instinct to scan from left to right (songs), whilst others suggest snatched dramatic moments, which I see as photographic ˜stills\" (arias).
I recognise a non-threatening ambiguity in the finished work emerging from a varying richness of benign tensions. In a purely visual sense these can be seen in the abrupt juxtaposition of flat and textured, the use of hard edges, amorphous shapes, imperfect disks, pentimenti, objects that fictitiously extend beyond the canvas boundary, and the avoidance of straight lines. As is technically true of music, I believe that these ˜tensions\" have the potential to attract; to impact subliminal emotional responses in the viewer that will ideally lead to a deeper reading, understanding and relationship.
It is my hope that such readings will further reveal those mysterious conceptual tensions and polarities that have an abiding resonance for so many of us, and which I seek to draw out by the use of recurring ideas and symbols: weight and weightlessness, movement and suspension, perfect and flawed, harmony and dissonance, ancient and modern, primitive and refined..
Activities:
2008 Group Show, ˜Homage\", St Dogmaels Gallery, Pembrokeshire
2008 Solo show, Ceredigion Museum Art Gallery, Aberystwyth
2007 Solo show, Three Counties Festival, Rhos-y-Gilwen, Pembrokeshire
2007 fforma, Theatr Clwyd, Mold
2006 Solo show, The Orangery, Aberystwyth (ongoing)
2005 fforma, Theatr Clwyd, Mold
2004 fforma, Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan
2004 fforma, St David\'s Hall, Cardiff
2003 fforma, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth
2003 fforma (group show), Toko, Aberystwyth
2002 Wales Drawing Biennale, Aberystwyth / Wrexham
1994 That There Art, Lancaster, PA
1994 New Art Voices, Lancaster, PA
1993 Mixed Media Show, Lancaster Arts Association, Lancaster, PA
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Via
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62 x 62 cm
2006
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Westerly
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127 x 102 cm
2006
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Warmer
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76 x 122 cm
2007
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There are no secrets in Tangers
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102 x 127 cm
2007
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Thaw
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62 x 62 cm
2007
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Petit Mal
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100 x 120 cm
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Submerge
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92 x 92 cm
2008
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Song #3
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92 x 92 cm
2007
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Song #2
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92 x 92 cm
2006
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Song #1
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92 x 92 cm
2006
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Solas
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102 x 127 cm
2007
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Slow Movement
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122 x 122 cm
2007
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Sail
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92 x 92 cm
2006
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Poison is Queen
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100 x 80 cm
2006
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On the Run
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127 x 102 cm
2007
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Mother
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190 x 152 cm
2007
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Moth
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92 x 92 cm
2006
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Mar Adentro
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92 x 92 cm
2007
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Liquid Aria
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100 x 120 cm
2006
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Kar
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100 x 200 cm
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Huzun #2
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100 x 100 cm
2008
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Gestant Blue
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100 x 80 cm
2007
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Fear of Yellow
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127 x 102 cm
2007
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Down Town
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92 x 92 cm
2005
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doux et penetrant
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41 x 51 cm
2007
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Baby, Baby, Baby
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127 x 102 cm
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Ariel
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100 x 120 cm
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Aria #4
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100 x 100 cm
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Aria #3
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100 x 100 cm
2006
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Aria #1
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100 x 100 cm
2006
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