Kit Beecroft - Yorkshire

The most a maker of images can hope for is that, for a moment, he or she can divert the viewer from the daily round. The images on this website gallery are inspired by observable phenomena – as in Sanctuary – Monolith – Mere Reflection. Others like Rites of Spring and Icon for a Masai are purely from the imagination. In the age of mass media, bombardment of the visual sense has seemingly limited attention spans to a degree where `optical illiteracy` has gained ground. These works in some cases hope to “create a pause” by a fermentation process, where a metaphoric transformation or interpretation into an enduring image occurs. Whether this process succeeds or fails I leave to the viewer. I believe a painting has to be experienced as an intuitive, feeling function, some of which is subliminal and therefore difficult to intellectualise. All works are in oil on canvas, some heavily textured; advancement and recession where appropriate are created by thickness of paint as well as tonal values.