ROBERT FEE

I like to explore the tension between abstraction and attempted representation, and I try to find an area where beauty, confusion, and precariousness can co-exist.

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Some paintings have been based on jazz compositions, exploring the relationship between harmony and colour, composition and space. Others developed from sketches of natural forms, and some have come from random keyboard entries and collage sources. I don’t have a set pattern for starting a painting; I trust that the painting will take on a life of its own, and transcend its incidental origins.

 

The paintings become things that are hard for me to categorize, and I am grateful for that. I want to leave a painting on its own terms, resolved, but not fully understood by me. It takes some time to appreciate how it developed and where it ended up. Maybe at that point I catch up to the painting and learn something from it; to what has transpired in paint, surface, and sensibility.

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