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Georgina Amos Paintings

Painting’s inescapable relationship to surface has inspired my recent work. The medium is not separate, but describes the content. I form a relief by sticking discarded packaging on to the canvas, and then layering a surface of acrylic colour to create a new aesthetic reading of the object. Painting over the surface of the packaging serves to reveal its shape while simultaneously concealing what may be behind it. Camouflage and secrecy has become important in my investigation of communicating through the visual. Through this surface I emphasis the visual oscillation between the illusion of making a flat image seem three-dimensional and the reality of the material.

Building up further layers of paint and masking areas at each stage, I finally peel away these areas to reveal the image. The work is hidden to me for the duration of making the painting. The shapes I mask are derived from amalgamations of forms I see in the world and are unrecognisable as any specific entity, lying between the figurative and the abstract. I am particularly interested in objects which do not communicate visually, such as satellite-dishes and telephone-wires, using their visual forms to explore and re-build new understandings of their original function.