Fountain Fine Art

Andrew McCutcheon

I have always been fascinated by the effect of changing light on the landscape.

My perfect day has a wild, stormy sky with breaking sunlight partially igniting a panoramic view; the pace of the breeze constantly changing the sky so that the penetrating rays of sunlight play games of attrition with creeping dark shadows.

Experiencing this errant journey of light across a landscape, in which it can witness both conflict and alliance, is the essential starting point for my work.

Frantically undertaken drawings and colour references are made - my own form of shorthand - to serve merely as prompts. Paintings are usually undertaken on the floor and I make inroads from all four sides with a combination of quick dynamic brush strokes and gestural movements. Pouring, then smearing the paint with my hands, layering glazes of ink, scratching back or dispersing paint with bleach provide surface variation. Shapes emerge and colours interact to recapture the immediacy of that initial sensation.