Introduction
This series of works entitled Beyond Words may be seen as a continuation of a narrative first begun in Psychiatry. The compositions reflect a journey from Psychiatry or more particularly from Psychotherapy to art, from the word to the image, from the subject to the object, from reality to the abstract, from notions of existence and the life cycle to time and space. One is reminded of a quotation penned by the author Theodore Dreiser in 1913…." Until in the middle ground which we call life, somewhere between nothing and nothing, hangs the perfect thing, which we love and cannot understand, but which we are compelled to confess a work of art.”
The paintings and drawings are iconic in nature they come from the internal world of the artist and reflect his essence. In this sense he is less concerned with embellishment than with the starkness of the image by which he wishes to convey mood, feeling, thought, situated in the instant, hence his inclination to use sheets of black and white. Beyond this he is preoccupied with the line, distinguishing the outside from the inside, dividing the inside into a myriad of shapes and sizes, angular, circular, square, directional or diffuse, light and dark planes. Colour is used to convey mood, to facilitate the image entering the eye of the viewer who is drawn to the colour, innately affected by its presence or for that matter absence.
He asks the viewer to accompany him on this journey and to hopefully have an experience that has some meaning to them. It is only beginning…. The rest is unknown.
Tim Blashki
