PAUL BATTAMS ARTIST PAINTER
Big Art at the Annex Participating in Art Month
Soho
Annex Rosebery,
Located at the corner of Crewe Place & Rothschild Avenue,
ROSEBERY, 2018
LARGE FORMAT CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS EXHIBITION
"After prolonged bouts of anguish, torment and pacing up and down the studio,
excitement starts to build. I remember a colour from a banana I ate a few days ago,
Suddenly, I see a flash in my mind ... a canvas so rich, so voluptuous, a beautiful
Indian red making that perfect banana colour, like a naked temptress veiled and
laying outstretched on a rock in the sun. I know if I sit down it will be hours passing
before I find the courage and excitement again to tackle the prepared canvas.
Quickly I fold the colours into one another on the glass palette, not too much, 'let
something work, itself out on the canvas' Like releasing a snow white dove, the
loaded knife hits the canvas surface spreading the thick buttery paint like clotted
cream across the virgin surface. I deliver the paint to the canvas, watching and
waiting, seizing on something, capitalizing on the moment as it happens.
It is painting for the sake of the paint itself. I live and die by some strange emotions
as the knife passes back and forth across the canvas, Brilliant marks trail one
another, In a rush to control, it feels like I'm waking a tight rope.
I know I'm only a guide; a rescuer the painting begins to breathe again. I have pulled it
back from the edge. I know the wrestling will continue until I make myself redundant
and the umbilical cord is cut. I'm exhausted………………."
Over the years Paul Battams has developed his own range of paints and steel blades.
Successive changes in formulae, have allowed him to create his unique style,
allowing him to fashion a different path towards the unique and the individual.
