Matthew Hawtin

 

 

 







Torqued Paintings 2009

Good ideas are hard to forget. I think that is what has returned me to the Torqued Paintings. My last developments were completed at the beginning of 2002 in Canada, I then moved to the UK and everything changed. Not my overall aesthetic but certainly the work I was constructing. I found myself reconsidering the work during summer 2008 when I decided to finish some canvases that I never completed. It brought me back to painting, to the canvas, and the surface that curves through space. Now 6 years on there are new avenues to explore, new ways of seeing and new materials to use. My concerns remain, the work being about surface and space, about design and colour, about objects and forms. There are new ideas to manifest and new ways to think. I find myself moving on a familiar path but with the experiences of the past pushing me forward. I look onward and onward I journey.

Torqued Paintings 2009