Arron Sturgeon paints in oil and wax, and through a process of abrading and scraping builds up a multilayered series of overlapping surfaces. His paintings are redolent of decay and beauty; of the intuitive, reflexivity, and “being in the moment;” all common enough tropes associates with abstract expressionism.

His canvases bear testament to a remarkable series of free-floating layers that swirl over one another in a manner that evokes a bird’s-eye perspective in the viewer that engages and enervates. Luminous transparent areas and soft fluid spaces ‘roll’ over each other in opposing kinetic energies, and the eye is pulled around the canvas with benign centrifugal force.

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