Bill Redshaw’s artworks are like diary entries.

                                                           

                                                          To different degrees of abstraction, evolving often towards minimalism, paintings and assemblages describe Flora and Fauna. People, places and objects. Inspired by loving shapes, forms and features of all different varieties and sources; tide marks in sand or scars on fruit skin become elements in shading and print techniques. Pictures torn from books for their figuration, such as museum artefacts, are appropriated as characters to fill a new world. Physical trinkets one collects and assigns precious value to, are celebrated. Their interesting colours and textures are transformed through playful experimentation, highlighting a thing’s history of creative use, and uselessness. Items, materials and liquids from their bedroom, studio, or travelling, find their way into an artwork alongside more traditional media like oils and pastels. They may separate from one another, muddy together, or crust, and these details can mimic aspects of Nature on a miniature scale, and create their own imaginary landscapes. Textural surfaces are reimagined in this way through basic craft techniques from school or children’s television – like tie-dye, batik resist, butterfly printing, and rubbings.

Turning from paintings to sculptures, he experiments in making, breaking and mending, until an image feels ‘settled’, and later labours to refine, or ‘prune’ their structure of patterns that emerge and reveal ‘dot-to-dot’ figurations.

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Contact : redshawbill@gmail.com