Sonny Williams
Brighton
Oil Painter
Due to the possibilities of imagination and the versatility of the medium, to me painting can be meant for so much more than mere depictions of reality. Intuition I think taps into something higher, something more meaningful yet inexplicable.
With this in mind, I would like to make paintings like waking dreams in which logic and decipherable narrative are abandoned, leaving only qualities and spaces for thought and feeling. This non-narrative approach to painting has been a common thread in my work since I began oil painting in the early 1990s.
In light of a recent and liberating technical breakthrough, I envision a far more prolific period ahead in which I can explore with greater freedom the possibilities of paintings that arise from personal visions and concepts that are largely unbounded by analytical thought whilst also embracing oil paint as a magnetic and embodying substance in its own right.
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