CHRISTOPHER EYLES

Christopher Eyles is excited by painting things that are transient within abstract space: This offers freedom of movement in a world of possibility.

The themes and ideas in his work are carefully formed from architecture, and the surrounding environment. Notions of space, place and destination feed the works. Allowing the viewer to escape and the artist to explore. The vehicles as subjects almost become metaphors for the exploration into the working process.

In strange and unfamiliar surroundings or a new city, people behave differently: They are more curious and need to explore the area around them. In his paintings Christopher Eyles wonders if it is the same for an artist or painter moving around a canvas, pushing and pulling objects or paint in new ways that he might not have tried before. "One can still feel lost on the surface of a canvas I am sure" He says.

Space is something that can feed ideas for both sculpture and painting. For an artist the studio is its own built space, but at the same time paintings offer infinite outcomes each with their own destination: The flow of paint from painting to painting adds to the adventure of creating a change and shift with which each new painting.

Stripped of their original place, paintings cannot be identified with a specific geographical location. So they are more likely to represent a non-space and thus represent the artist as a traveller within the world in which he and his paintings are situated. These non-spaces can sometimes only add to the ambiguity and questioning of the images to the relationship they each have but also to the viewers own thoughts.

Christopher Eyles studied at the University of Creative Arts Farnham, graduating in 2009. His work was selected for the National Open Art Competition, Chichester 2009.