Artists: Jan Crombie
Artist's Statement
'Though now working in a variety of 2D and 3D media including film, I still regard painting as my home base. Projects are sometimes self-contained and self referential, at other times outward looking or site specific. All are driven on by an interest in finding a chink in the real and imagined armour that protects the human psyche. Subject matter is in turns political and personal, sometimes playful, but more often raw and destructive.
I invite the viewer not only to relate to the subject matter but also with the series of actions or manoeuvres that created the work. The raw act of painting is explicit, the metaphysical acts and decisions, which precede and follow the movement of the brush must therefore also be explicit. The speed and intensity of the rendering becomes the image, both compassion and disdain reflected through the urgency of the brush.'
