The best description of my work would be an impressionist landscape with a strong leaning towards abstraction.
Unlike most impressionists, I am more interested in structural details, not vistas. I enjoy investigating the ‘bones’ of nature, dissecting and extracting strong linear forms.
The paint is applied loosely, layered and thatched away. I like to build it up, as well as wipe over and even paint out previously painted areas. This enhances the sense of depth and reflective ness, creating vague shadows and rhythms. Through dribbles of paint, loose brushwork, rough, grainy and smooth surfaces, expansive spaces, opaque washes of earthy quiet colours, seasons are insinuated.
The only way to reach my home and studio on a bushland hillside is by boat over an ever-changing body of water, this has had a profound influence on my work. My painting is now taking on a more rhythmical, sinuous quality culminating in a more abstract format of strength and experience, a result in the maturing of my visual language.
Chris Kenyon 2010
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