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Meltemi's Abstracts

My abstract artworks have flowing 'organic' forms part of my fascination with art & design. The Art Nouveau, The Arts & Craft Movement and The Art Deco Period are all part of my sources of inspiration. They have a common feature, an artistic time of simple defined lines and extravagant flowing defined lines. For me lines are the clearly defined border between the known and perhaps the unknown. Shapes, lines, angles & forms are all things to play with. Abstract art frees me from agonising about shadow, lighting, perspective even. I also have an admiration for modern stained glass artworks. The bright acrylic colours that I have enable me to take a design concept of to a new level. I find the world to be an otherwise dreary, dull near colourless place. Mindful that I only paint in close-up each element is a cameo in the limit of my field of vision. Iridescent acrylics are in themselves another technical challenge as too are the metallic acrylics. Paint finishes and colours will always be a fascination for me. I paint filling in the afternoons in a calm relaxing way, not that days in retirement are all that hectic. Constructing & executing an idea using a geometric form is both fun and a utilisation of my old hand-based technical drawing skills. I always start out with the intention of painting a triptych artwork. Some phrase, a poem, a song, a conversation with The memsahib [for any new reader this is my wife] or something I have seen somewhere is the trigger. Another trigger is looking up a word in a dictionary and reading the two pages that are near to it. I will think about it for a day or two. A quick sketch in my plan-book. Figure out the proportions & transfer the thoughts to a fine pencil-lined construction on a very white canvas. Blank white canvas has no terrors for me now. I will happily remain the Naive Artist in the outsider art movement. That is Art from The Studio of Meltemi for you. My Admired artists would have to be Henri Rousseau who painted in a unique colourful almost symbolic form and was well off the mainstream art of his day and perhaps opened up art to the 20th century and to modern art. Henri Rousseau [care not Theodore 19 Th. C. Barbizon School of artists] opened the door, as it were, to Vasily Kandinsky who was the artist who really started the abstract art movement.