About work:
Images. A brief explanation.
These images are a cross selection of the work I produce, I find influence from the subject and the materials used greatly influence the final outcome. I do not have a signature or fixed style, except to say my signature is in fact my personal character. That is to say I enjoy the process and the journey an idea or material can take me on, to tread the unknown, relish the experience, consider the possible and impossible and revel in the outcome.
The acrylics were painted in the open air, sun on my back, music playing on the radio, the only limits the size of the canvas and the weather, it often rained during the process adding marks, a form of collaboration of nature you could say.
The oils are painted indoors, being a thicker slower medium, marks are more considered and can be adjusted, manipulated and scrapped back. Brushes are used but I prefer palette knives or a decorator’s scrapper, sometimes odd pieces of wood or card are used. Abstracts are often partial images taken from another piece of work or a photo image detail.
The ceramics are part of practice that evolved from my time on a BA (Hons) Applied Arts degree course at Plymouth College of Art, which given the vast array of materials available led to numerous experiments, taking everything to its absolute limit. The pieces illustrated uses porcelain in a non- precious way. The making also involved an element of performance to achieve the shape and texture, as well as treating the clay as a canvas, combining several aspects of my practise within the one piece.
Other aspects of my work include working with found objects, sometimes producing semi useful decorative items such as mirrors, or abstract sculpture, combining or manipulating objects and spaces.
Kelvin Harvey
October 2008
