The first thing I would like to say is that, in the main, I am a painter, and I love it. I love the “stuff” of painting and have a real passion for the process. I try to use it to express thoughts, feelings and deep emotion; to explore and depict themes of Christianity, mankind and nature.  I love the paint itself and allow myself the luxury of taking risks with it – I have developed a trust that it will work for me and have a confidence in it to be viscous, flesh like, alive and moving as it forms mounds and ridges, or flows and runs into rivulets, forming the most fascinating surface qualities.  When left to its own devises paint can form a visual impact far superior to anything, that I as an artist could try and force it to do.

My methodology is simple – I oscillate between abstraction and figuration, acknowledging that once a painting is clearly defined I have an overwhelming urge to make it more obscure.  Once it is obscure I have the same urge to make it more defined. Somewhere along this continuum the work will “feel” right.  It may be at a stage where it is clearly defined or far more abstract, it may have taken weeks, months or years but there is a point at which I just know the work is finished.

As the finished works emerge from a working process that has merged abstraction and figuration,accident and control, freedom and restraint, what you see on the surface belies all that went before it.  The surface is sometimes relatively easy to read but I hope that the underneath struggle shines through.  I hope I reveal a whole, rather than a half self, a deep down personal reality that I may find hard to share in any other way.   I hope this gives the work a sense of integrity and a “certain something” that goes beyond an initial response, something that pierces straight to the soul and moves you. 

My earnest prayer is that when you look at a piece of my work you will not simply try to understand it but will feel something and be moved.

Above - Extracts from  the “The Homecoming”  by Dee Rollinson

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