Roger Healey-Dilkes
@roger_h_dilkes
Statement:
I don’t ‘paint’ paintings, I make them or more accurately I build them. I am interested in working with materials that are surplus to the everyday and techniques that are botched or improvised. I find materials on skips, the reduced shelves in DIY stores or in the recycling bin at home. I like the idea that unneeded off cuts, end of line goods or disposed of packaging, are starting points for something
I make. Materials filtered through a process of construction, being out of date or disposal, change through my working process. I use abstraction as a motivation to construct a painting, making up rules to find a solution for bringing together these arbitrarily found materials. That process involves changing their use from a functional utilitarian purpose into something, which is based on visual and emotional impact. The process of changing through construction also acknowledges that they could change back or that this is just a provisional point in their history.
@roger_h_dilkes
Statement:
I don’t ‘paint’ paintings, I make them or more accurately I build them. I am interested in working with materials that are surplus to the everyday and techniques that are botched or improvised. I find materials on skips, the reduced shelves in DIY stores or in the recycling bin at home. I like the idea that unneeded off cuts, end of line goods or disposed of packaging, are starting points for something
I make. Materials filtered through a process of construction, being out of date or disposal, change through my working process. I use abstraction as a motivation to construct a painting, making up rules to find a solution for bringing together these arbitrarily found materials. That process involves changing their use from a functional utilitarian purpose into something, which is based on visual and emotional impact. The process of changing through construction also acknowledges that they could change back or that this is just a provisional point in their history.
#chantillystick
60 x 43cm
Acrylic, collage, pen, graphite, varnish and gypsum on plasterboard
2021
60 x 43cm
Acrylic, collage, pen, graphite, varnish and gypsum on plasterboard
2021