Kex Gill

Mixed media on board
60cm x 120cm

Born: Haxby, York 1967

Studied Fine Art: Manchester Metropolitan University (Ba Hons) 1990-93

Colour has a significant relevance to me. I aim to strike an aesthetic equivalence through the painting and this could quite easily result in the primary layers being lost as I progress the work and often only mere fragments of colour put down initially will remain.

Heavy and light brush strokes, layers, scratches and pencil marks are reconciled and a relationship between all these elements within the painting is achieved. The process in achieving this relationship and balance I seek is often a fractious one and I can only contemplate finishing a piece when the work starts ‘talking back’.