ELEANOR LOUISE BUTT IN ‘THALIA’ MAGAZINE

Working in loose, gestural abstraction, my painting practice is process driven. Through colour, texture, lines and forms, I combine surfaces and gestural energy, adopting the potentialities of paint to create surfaces where action, experience, perception and memory are interwoven and folded back into one another.

The surface of each painting becomes a charged space through my use of coarse linen, raw canvas and hessian, and it is often saturated with an iconic yellow hue. What then follows is an intuitive process of applying and removing paint, pouring, rubbing and layering. My canvases become diaristic sites to pose questions and receive answers.