Belem Lett

This Land is Slippery, 2022

150 × 180 × 5 cm oil, gesso, marble dust on aluminium composite panel

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Lett’s work plays with light and colour as inseparably the same. The act of painting is considered through the history of gestural abstraction. Reduced to a surface and paint applied with a colour loaded brush. There is an implicit physical momentum involved in Lett’s work; the push/pull, twists, the drag of the brush, the drip, the stop and start. There is a consistent concern with movement, colour and light. 'This Land Is Slippery' plays with multiple horizon lines through the helter skelter stacking of numerous banded streams of colour. The slippage between these banded horizons alluding to the geological crumpling of the earths crust, resulting in the landscape around us. The momentum of tectonic plates as they shift and grind across each other forming the hills and mountain ranges around us. Each section of the work, through the variations in hue, become multiple landscape horizons, the light shifting as it does through the day.