RALPH STANTON | COLOURS IN MOTION
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - Sunday, August 17, 2025
Frances Keevil at Studio W - 6 Bourke St, Woolloomooloo Wed - Sun, 11 - 5
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THURSDAY 7TH AUGUST, 6 - 8PM
Artist statement: COLOURS IN MOTION
After my last exhibition - “Looking for the Light” I cannot claim to have found it. But the quest keeps me on my toes and still in search of a positive outcome, which I hope will inform the paintings and offer those who see them a rewarding result.
In a way, I have been working on the same paintings, so to speak, eternally. Not as Sisyphus and the eternal stone; but there is always more “light” to be sought.
The present body of work displays more transparency under thin glazes, with layers of translucent, glowing colours in motion across the surface of the canvas. The result aspires to a feeling of light, ephemeral, appearing from all sides, tangibly luminous.
I’m interested in the patterns of light as they play out on the texture of the paint’s surface. Bearing no inherent moral or cautionary trope, the painting becomes, an artefact in itself, or like a piece of music, evoking an emotional response.
“The Sound of Colour” or “The Colour of Sound”
Ralph Stanton
Mystere 1
acrylic on canvas
123 x 112 cm
Ralph Stanton
Before the Dawn
acrylic on canvas
100 x 80 cm
Ralph Stanton
Goldenrod
acrylic on canvas
121 x 221 cm
Ralph Stanton
Light Blue
acrylic on canvas
100 x 200 cm
Ralph Stanton
Deep Blue
acrylic on canvas
102 x 102 cm
Ralph Stanton
Contemplating Green
acrylic on canvs
100 x 100 cm