Artist Statement

For over thirty years, Philip Lindsey has explored the language of painting through several bodies of work. The first, a formalist language of expressive gestural abstraction. The second, a journey into personal narrative through metaphor and allegory, and a third, investigating a sense of place through landscape and plein air.

Abstraction
The purity of abstraction and eloquence of poetics developed into a vast language derived from a vocabulary of limitations. Series evolved as the language grew, with materials informing process and decisions concerning form,space, scale and complexity. Stasis, dynamics, structure, and tension locates the core of these investigations.

Figure and Personal Narrative
A new language emerged as a new purpose was revealed through fatherhood. Single-scene and multi-episodic formats combine direct and indirect painting processes, to explore the density of relationships through metaphorical themes.

Landscape
The careful observation of light, atmosphere, time, and place is the focus of this body of work. It is an opportunity to participate in nature, and attempt to realize sensations, as Cezanne once wrote, of an experience and feeling of place, through the poetry of painting.