Art 3 are proud to present 'The Absoluteness of Systems' ,Geometric and expressive Abstract paintings by Ross Martin. Martin’s work is an investigation of pure abstraction; it explores colour’s ability to control form.  It celebrates the beauty and unfaltering subtleties of formalism coupled with the sensuous, seductive and vital nature of colour.

His formalism is the result of the imposition of ‘systems’; sets of absolute rules that dictate proportion and colour.  These are derived from flamenco music and the landscape from which it comes in Andalucia, Southern Spain: the driving urgency of syncopated rhythmsin bulerias, the majestic throb of soleares, bleached or richly coloured earth, dazzling rocky escarpments, newly exposed cork oak trunks, ceilingless skies, silvery grey-green olive groves, the vulture’s oily back, faded scrub, ancient shadowy gorges and nestling brilliant-white villages.

Ross Martin’s paintings suggest an internal, poetic landscape; rhythmic, formalised and emotionally eloquent. More work can be seen here

If you would like to read a fuller text on Ross Martin's 'Purpose of Systems ' click here (downloadable PDF)

'System 7 55 99'
Acrylic
74 cm X 74 cm

 

'System 3 567 9 '
Acrylic
122 cm X 61cm

'Bow'
Acrylic
37 cm X 37 cm