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Artist Statement for Adrian Setterfield
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In my art I attempt to say something about reality. By no means do I wish to define reality but rather to express the essence of what I call reality which is the intelligence that animates everything.
During the action of this expression, the tension of duality is felt in the body and the brush moves accordingly as a spontaneous flow. There are moments when my intellect kicks in and begins to conceptualize the present action into a way to follow. At that point I may step back and take a look at the work. I do this because intervention of my mind into the direction of the painting, makes the spontaneous action seem to become controlled and this in turn triggers off an array of habitual thought patterns which appear to block the flow. But this is not actually the case and so a small breather seems to change the direction of the flow and loosen things up again.
I see my body as the vehicle through which the creative Intelligence can express itself. The brush acts as an antenna which picks up the emotion in the body and then records it as a calligraphic brush stroke on the surface.
I find great inspiration in the art works of the COBRA group and other outsider artists along with the founder members of the Abstract Expressionistic group of the 1950's.
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