Chris Edwick

Painting is an act of pure childish pleasure. Colour is gorgeous, shocking and sensual. 

Paintings are improvised moments of wet colour melting into wet colour, unrehearsed and without care, control or inhibition, allowing intuition and the spontaneous joy of painting to take over. 

Each painting should strut with a brutal and chaotic energy and joie de vivre like visual rock n' roll, insolent and raucous. 

The late work of Patrick Heron and Gillian Ayres are sources of inspiration, exploring the idea of pure visual and sensual pleasure as something urgent and profound. 

Other sources of inspiration include the rough paintwork of Jean Michel Basquiat, the harsh edged music of the Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy, Christopher Lloyds sharp and wilful colour clashing in the garden at Great Dixter, the mesmerising, frenzied choreography of William Forsythe and the darkly lush, erotic photography of Guy Bourdin.