Mike Staniford
Mike Staniford @mikestaniford) is a contemporary Australian artist, inspired by the bold colours of nature and the celebration of its shapes and forms. Mike’s paintings are intuitive and gestural and seek to reinterpret the landscape, to distill down its complexity and eliminate the unnecessary.
“All of my paintings start with drawings made on location, sometimes quick intuitive sketches, others longer, more observed studies. Whilst I may start by making quite figurative drawings, I’m looking for that dialogue with the landscape, refiguring the geographical elements and shifting the compositional structure.
I don’t want to give you a formal view but moreover to re-envision the shapes and forms I see before me; actions that are deliberately spontaneous and to make shape and colour paramount in my work. To distill down the complexity of a scene and abstractly express the unfolding landscape. To give you a sense of the emotion, as well as the topography of the land.”
Mike Staniford @mikestaniford) is a contemporary Australian artist, inspired by the bold colours of nature and the celebration of its shapes and forms. Mike’s paintings are intuitive and gestural and seek to reinterpret the landscape, to distill down its complexity and eliminate the unnecessary.
“All of my paintings start with drawings made on location, sometimes quick intuitive sketches, others longer, more observed studies. Whilst I may start by making quite figurative drawings, I’m looking for that dialogue with the landscape, refiguring the geographical elements and shifting the compositional structure.
I don’t want to give you a formal view but moreover to re-envision the shapes and forms I see before me; actions that are deliberately spontaneous and to make shape and colour paramount in my work. To distill down the complexity of a scene and abstractly express the unfolding landscape. To give you a sense of the emotion, as well as the topography of the land.”
Mike Staniford @mikestaniford) is a contemporary Australian artist, inspired by the bold colours of nature and the celebration of its shapes and forms. Mike’s paintings are intuitive and gestural and seek to reinterpret the landscape, to distill down its complexity and eliminate the unnecessary.
“All of my paintings start with drawings made on location, sometimes quick intuitive sketches, others longer, more observed studies. Whilst I may start by making quite figurative drawings, I’m looking for that dialogue with the landscape, refiguring the geographical elements and shifting the compositional structure.
I don’t want to give you a formal view but moreover to re-envision the shapes and forms I see before me; actions that are deliberately spontaneous and to make shape and colour paramount in my work. To distill down the complexity of a scene and abstractly express the unfolding landscape. To give you a sense of the emotion, as well as the topography of the land.”