Artists & Makers

Adrian Scholefield

Art Forms

Mixed media, Painting

Artist information

Adrian Scholefield      

BSc. [Hons.] B.Arch.

mixed media artist & painter

 

I connect deeply with places, the more remote, the more ‘bleak’, the more primal, 

the greater the emotional connection. I ‘feel’ places, spaces and sounds, examining 

the emotional response, trying to dismiss the ‘surface’, drilling down to the raw and 

primal emotion. I am now exploring personal emotional responses to colours, 

concepts and ideas – slightly more elusive goals.

 

For me, all representations that include ‘light and shade’ tonality invoke space, a place, 

and illicit a response accordingly whereas; representations that utilise ‘flat’ colour illicit a 

response through the modulation between the colours or the degree of contrasting 

complexity. I am also conscious of ‘scale’ and often aim to leave out any reference to scale, 

inviting ambiguity in the viewer and drawing a more individual personal response.

This style of painting often utilises a process that explores random expressive mark making 

on a blank canvass, inviting interpretation, generating creative judgements and iteratively 

manipulating, expressing responses until the ‘dance’ is done.

 

I have no formal art training or qualifications and feel unencumbered and free from over 

intellectualised twaddle around the subject, preferring just to ‘play’, learn through play, 

explore and develop – I have more than enough over-intellectualised architectural twaddle 

to compensate!

 

 

Website and social media

adescho

https://www.adrianscholefield.com/

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