HI, I'M JASON BROWNLEE

MY LATEST BODY OF WORK 
CONCEPT TO CANVAS

This body of work is a celebration of colour and is totally subjective to the audience. Concept to canvas is a series of paintings both abstract and figurative abstract that allows you the viewer to investigate the mind of the artist, created from a phenological perspective my own, these paintings are my interpretation of the world around me gained through experiences of the environment in which I live and in return this creates knowledge that is unique to me and allows me to create through an embodied experience as a living breathing organism. I am influenced by some of the greatest twentieth century artists to have lived, artists such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat. I'm Intrigued by the different styles and techniques they have developed and mastered over the years, and I choose not to be tied down to one style of painting. I am a prolific creator of art and feel the need to create, sometimes more than one copy of the same painting using different mediums, oil-paint, acrylics and sometimes fabric are the mediums that I am most comfortable working with, this is a compulsion to create that drives me and makes me who I am as an artist. Pareidolia appears in some of my artwork, it is an optical illusion that tricks the eye into seeing familiar shapes and forms usually animals or faces, an example of this could be seen in cloud formations or woodgrain, sometimes I deliberately set out to incorporate this in my work but sometimes it just happens by chance. Process is very important to me, and Formal Art is a big part of my art practice, line, tone, shape, form, colour, pattern, texture and composition are more important to me rather than the subject matter. Creating art is a cathartic process which feels a void inside of me, I love to be in the moment creating spontaneously forever experimenting and discovering new things, never being afraid to colour over the lines there are no mistakes in art. I do hold close to my heart the theories of Formalism and how a painting doesn’t have to be a good painting to tell a good story, they created art for art's sake, this is my approach to painting, painting what makes me happy and, there's no elaborate academic words running in correlation with the artworks, pretending it's something it is not, it is simply art for art's sake. Although I do like my artwork to be ascetically pleasing to the audience and have a certain amount of balance to it, this is a celebration of Art that is completely subjective, and I hope that conveys my love and passion for art. 

 Jason Dean Brownlee.