Max Gimson

Similar to staring into a fire and conjuring hallucinations from one’s own imagination, I attempt to develop form, narrative and structure in my work within the physical and incidental act of painting.

In one instance three large, indeterminable bird-like creatures exist as a glowing orange mass of painted gestures and in the next they are rendered as passive, ornamental voyeurs from the corner of a room. In another painting thick, black smoke bellows from an open hearth and in the next it surrounds the viewer as they are situated within the fire.

Like cupping smoke in one's hands and then looking inside to see it dissipate into the atmosphere, the paintings consist of momentary passages of clarity within temporally shifting painterly gestures – internal logic always teetering between figurative description and abstractions.