"My recent work, "Constellation Series" are ideographic self portraits. The paintings evolve and are developed from automatic scribble drawing. Recognition of the final form of each work is discovered in the process of negotiating with the visual elements of the work while making the paintings. "Automatism " is my chosen method and process as it provides me with a very direct way of making paintings that I find exciting and challenging in the ongoing development of my images. This process also allows me the freedom of making primal and immediate drawing action on the canvas without any representational or conceptual pre-conditions, other than what I know to do, and the general characteristics of my own psychology and physiology. Each painting in the Constellation Series are syntactical and ongoing in process and procedure, mirroring the previously terminated psychological state that produced the painting that preceded it. The linear vortex calligraphy, that is in all the work, is an autobiographical statement of process as I make the motions that make the marks, that determine the abstract space which is the formal content in all the work. The paintings are metaphysically felt, automatic impulse becomes gesture and then visual sign for entry into an imagined universe outside and beyond myself."
Richard Halliday R.C.A.
We regret to inform you that Richard Halliday passed away in 2011. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
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