RALPH STANTON

This exhibition is a continuation of my last show There’s a Crack in Everything (after Leonard Cohen). With this work, there is no obvious crack or rupture in the surface or the picture plane. There are layers of light, glowing through an opaque landscape. The paintings reflect an underlying feeling I have that the light we seek is ephemeral. It appears from behind, from the sides, from above, from below, indirect, yet luminous.

Light is integrated and inherent, rather than something that might be more directly stated. Illumination not via a lightning strike, but rather a glow.

I’m interested in the patterns of light as they play out on the texture of the paint’s surface. The painting becomes like a piece of jewellery, an artefact in itself without the need for illustration or to tell a story.