STATEMENT:
Brook’s new body of paintings is a confluence of recent influences and challenges to his practice, together with a long-term interest in the interplay of shapes and surfaces in the natural and urban environments.

Through deconstructing and re imagining tightly grided structures that previously defined my work, the picture plane is now reconstructed with shapes seen and imagined in various urban architectural spaces, both interior and exterior.

This developing visual syntax of overlapping and conjoined flat shapes of colour provide a framework to explore what I call ‘chromo plasticity’ where respective appearances of colour are influenced and altered by neighbouring hues. Experimenting with nuanced planes of colour, simultaneous chromatic harmony and dissonance, visual depth and flatness, and compositional balance and movement are explored within a two-dimensional abstracted field.

October 2024