Elizabeth Barnes

Artist Statement

The paintings are slow paintings, often based on a modernist-inspired grid. The work takes time to make. They set a stage where time can unfold for the viewer. Colour integrates with overlapping forms across a rhythmic composition, resulting in a sometimes fractured but often harmonious environment. Through a process of layering, inspired as much by digital production as the intuitive and experimental application of paint, the paintings evolve. Forms overlap, appear, disappear, transform, vibrate, or sit in stillness, but nothing remains fixed. All is in flux.