Acrylic paint on canvas
“ ... But great sea it is ... the unconscious, and sooner or later, if our art is to have any depth, we must stand the test of swimming in it, or sinking. To tap the unconscious in a fertile, not a demeaning way ... requires a submission to the life of the medium itself ... So this submission to the life of the medium is accompanied by, necessitates, other submissions too – a submission to things outwith the defining tendencies of conscious intelligence, for one, a submission to things outside art for another, a loosening of bonds all round, an openness to the world of concrete sensation … “
Alan Gouk
