Ralph Stanton’s abstract expressions ‘evoke mood through colour, texture and underlying effect,’ the artist says. Consciously planned only broadly, not in detail, his work relies on intuition, seeking feelings of space and beauty, which arrive through process: layering, glazing, rubbing back, overpainting.
‘The work tends to suggest the mood – rather than tangible imagery – of landscape, seascape or skyscape, capturing its expressive nature, ‘emotional residue’ or ‘tonal atmosphere’. Actually, it is an ‘inner landscape’ that is reflected. And sometimes even an ‘inner light,’ he explains.
Ralph Stanton, Rockface, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 100 × 100cm. Courtesy the artist
Disorder Gallery
30 September to 16 October 2021
Sydney
