Your Skin is like Vinyl

Andy Stewart's new series, entitled Your Skin is Like Vinyl, echoes his use of innovative materials such as gloss paint, glitter and diamond dust to construct rich painterly surfaces. The musical reference delves deeper into the process of making work and draws similes to our lyrical appreciation of abstract art, where the canvas acts as the artist's playground for spontaneous and intuitive mark marking. His work is abundant with painterly incident; pigment is splashed, thrown, drawn and poured and as such we feel the artist's actual physical presence in the work. It is an involved process of layering rhythmic movement enriched through the physicality of the materials he uses.  Recognisable form often appears in the work; a pirouetting figure, an alchemistic landscape or a supernova, but as quickly as it is observed it can dissolve into fluid line or an inky pool of colour. Ultimately, it is the variety of medium that creates palpable and tactile surfaces, which spill out and envelop the viewer, while they journey through a spectacular yet meditative landscape of paint, colour and texture.