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'This series of small works are about big events. I usually work with large canvases that allow me distance, both physical and psychological, from my work. This time by restricting my size I’m narrowing my focus and searching for clarity and beauty.

I have been pushing my expressionistic works over the years to distil my understanding of points of change in them, within the painting process. For example, to pinpoint exactly when the unconsidered marks change from something of a mess to something else; beautiful? I am interested in this intersection of formality in expressionism, order versus mess.

In these figurative works these themes continue in relation to my life, and my art career, and I am painting the moment when a part of my life becomes more understandable, less entangled or messy, similarly perhaps beautiful. A lot of these moments of course happen to all of us during travels or outside our daily momentum, where my images are sourced from photos I have taken on my phone.

From this exploration of these smaller more intimate works I will embark on a suite of new pieces for my solo exhibition at FLG in April 2019.'Artist Statement WALDEMAR KOLBUSZ 2018