2009 - Statement on The Built Environment by Jas Hugonnet | Annabel Butler

Jas Hugonnet
October 2009

Abstraction has the benefit of appealing to one’s imagination and memory by creating space to accommodate both. In this latest body of work, Butler builds compositions of colour where tonal difference suggests space within the picture plane.

Crucial to the works are the horizontal and vertical edges which mentally isolate the scene and act as reference points for these constructed compositions. The immediacy of paint to canvas and board and the apparent lack of under drawing evoke confidence and spontaneity in the application of paint.

In these environments devoid of the figure, the suggested perspectives through blocks of colour, mixed occasionally with line, succeed as they enable the mind’s eye to inhabit the spaces.