Jeremy Morgan

I build my paintings around reclaimed, arbitrarily-sized wooden panels and off-cuts. These materials cock a snook at the rational world of the grid and act as catalysts for the final, painted structure – forms sometimes collide and at other times don’t quite touch. Panels are constantly swapped around as I work, disrupting the compositional flow and creating both tension and possibilities. As elements are moved, the painted forms become spliced and out of sync, and in this way a skittish and sometimes unexpected visual rhythm is developed. In recent work, paint is applied in a series of translucent layers, creating secondary and tertiary colours where the base structure is out of alignment with the painted surface. The intention is for the resulting paintings to act as open-ended ‘interims’ – caught mid-way between resolution and dissolution.