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| Jeremy Elkington. Sea of Despair, 2011. Oil on canvas |
The core aspects of Jeremy's art are focus on beauty, haunting atmosphere, and the resonance of ancient history. Sense of the archaic connected with the desert landscape as well as the enticing and beautiful nature of ornament, patterns and objects of ancient cultures.
Also prevalent within his work are interior vs exterior, shadow and light, perspective, forms and surreal employment of details as my responses to film, composition, spontaneous ideas and, most significantly, music.
The work offers the duality between the intimate and the vast; beauty and rawness of landscape; warmth and uncertainty; light and emerging darkness. These aspects unfold hidden narratives of past and present. From this, possible scenarios as well as echoes of history and the resonances of past lives, relationships and tragedies permeate the supposed “emptiness” of the desert landscape and we are left to contemplate on the themes of love, hope, loss, isolation, ecstasy, tragedy, celebration, melancholy and reflection.
Bareness is used in his paintings to enforce the sublime tragedy of being emotionally and physically overwhelmed and uplifted within the ambiguous freedom offered.
Jeremy Elkington is based in Traralgon in the LaTrobe Valley, Gippsland, Victoria. Jeremy will be returning to the Golden Plains Arts Trail on 24 & 25 March 2012 to exhibit at the Garibaldi Hall with the group of Garibaldi Hall artists.
To see more of his wonderful work, visit: http://www.myspace.com/jeremyelkington
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