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Johanna Melvin’s paintings are built through a finely layered process of decision-making about colour relationship, spatial composition and consistency of paint, negotiating a finely-spun balance between the incidental and intentional.

A starting point or inspiration for this process might be found in architectural details, a window, an open door or a shadow cast along a wall. Other kinds of fleeting visual sensation informing the work and its preoccupation with the painterly, might be the incidental brush-marks found on a whitewashed window, the roof tops of a city-scape or found colour relationships in the urban environment that excite the eye.

For her exhibition here at The House of St Bar...

2017
Acrylic on Aluminium
60.0 x 40.0cm

Where you'll find this

The House of St Barnabas
Permanent collection