Today is the deed

 

After reading the Realist Manifesto, I was pleased to contribute to this exhibition as I found myself in agreement in part, in its tenets and associated statements by Alexander Rodchenko, with his goal of eliminating expressive brushwork and with Lyubov Popova and her fellow Constructivists when they declared that easel painting was to be abandoned and that all creative endeavour was to be for the People.

 

My approach to painting is primarily concerned with colour - specific to nature.

 

As Constructivism was for the people, ‘ Art should attend us everywhere that life flows and acts ‘ It is my assertion that had the Constructivists in 1920 been aware of the global environmental crisis as it is today, it would have been addressd by the Constructivist movement.

 

The ecological crisis we at this time  face, represented by issues such as global warming , environmental degradation and transboundary pollution, states a challenge to the traditional thinking  for democracy and for global society itself. I have chosen in this series of  paintings to highlight  the plight of the natural world. The subjects for all the paintings in this show were chosen because at this stage in time, they are a miniscule selection of  the  myriad of flora and fauna that are all in danger of extinction in England , Scotland , Wales and  Ireland.

 

 

14th November 2014