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Gregg Simpson's Artist Profile
Gregg Simpson from Bowen Island, Canada
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Artist's Statement

"My work is on the border between abstraction and surrealism, formal design and automatism. I begin a work very spontaneously, often with the canvas lying on the ground and soaked with water to make the colors flow.

Then I proceed to re-draw and mold the shapes, alternately adding and removing layers of paint to reveal the implicit imagery. Ultimately, the painting tells me how to resolve the final result, which may, or may not, correspond to anything in nature.

My paintings are usually improvised from the beginning, without a preliminary sketch. Their final form is arrived at through the direct application of paint. while elements of drawing are repeatedly allowed to appear and then are covered over again, until a final result emerges.

A work may evolve into a lyrical, atmospheric work, or one where formal structures of design suggest the figure, the landscape, or even still life, but re-interpreted into a purely imaginative realm, creating a personal, yet universal, world of forms, whose meaning changes with each viewer."

My work involved an evolution through aspects of surrealism and abstraction. I began in the 60s as a hard-edge, Pop-influenced painter, who also did collages, drawings and multi-media.

In the 1970’s I developed neo-surrealist style, which eventually worked its way to a form of lyric abstraction.
My work is on the border between abstraction and surrealism, formal design and automatism.

I begin a work very spontaneously, often with the canvas lying on the ground and soaked with water to make the colors flow.

Then I proceed to re-draw and mold the shapes, alternately adding and removing the layers of paint to reveal the implicit imagery. Ultimately, the painting tells me how to resolve the final result, which may, or may not, correspond to anything in nature.

My paintings are usually improvised from the beginning, with only a simple preliminary drawing on the canvas as a starting point.

The final form of the painting is arrived at through the direct application of paint, while elements of drawing are repeatedly allowed to appear and then are made to disappear, until a final result emerges.

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