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Drips and Gesture
When colour chooses its own path
Threads of colour dropped, poured and interwoven. In these works the painter guides the paint but lets the material decide the final stroke: the result is a vibrant, almost musical energy.
There is a moment in painting when the artist stops controlling everything and makes room for chance. Drip painting is born there: fluid acrylic, diluted to just the right consistency, is dropped or poured onto the canvas and traces paths that no brush could ever draw.
It is a tradition that runs through the twentieth century — from the dripping of American Abstract Expressionism to European post-war experiments — yet every painter reinvents it with their own rhythm. In these canvases the gesture is sometimes rigorous, almost a score of parallel lines; at other times it is free and explosive, like a summer storm.
They are paintings to be seen up close, to discover how each thread of colour lies over or under the others, and from a distance, to feel the overall rhythm: an orchestra of lines.
