Elaine Hedges – Oxfordshire Artweeks

209 Elaine Hedges

Region: Bicester – North & West

Artform: Painting

I am is a Fine Artist based in Oxfordshire. I have a BA Hons in Graphic Design and Illustration and a former Head of Art
I am delighted to be showing my work at Cole’s Books, Bicester.

As a painter I much time in amongst the trees, lakes and wide expanses of dappled light of the French countryside and that has influenced my work.
I explore the dance between shape and form while maintaining abstraction. As my work moves further and further into abstraction I feel the notion of moving past right and wrong and it becomes increasingly irrelevant, giving the viewer license to interpret my work, and thus share in the meaning-making of the art.
I use fluid figurative shapes and natural forms as reference alongside line elements.
I am motivated by the energy created by the relationships between colours. The ideas change as each painting progresses and I take different creative turns at various points of the creative journey.
I continue to explore new dimensions, pushing the boundaries between intuition and intention
There is always a challenge in each painting and it is often difficult to recreate the energy of any one time in the next painting. Often interplay of colours and marks happen that are not intentional and that brings their own expressive quality.
Knowing when a painting is complete is an illusive skill, it is easy to go too far even with one brush stroke of a colour and it the painting feels lost. Often for myself the narrative emerges as the work progresses and I am able to engage on a deeper level. Colour is a strong focus, I see colour combinations and there is a drive to start to paint and so it begins.

The Exhibition first invites the viewer to collaborate on an intellectual plane where there is no innate correctness, and the second hints at the transient nature of shared moments briefly caught within a painting”

Email – elaine.hedges@btinternet.com