Land scape Special Edition CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW living but also this fascination with how nature occasions, including your recent exhibition The makes such amazing forms, such as the Sea, at the Fronteer Gallery, in Sheffield: how simplicity of the spiral of a seashell, or the do you consider the nature of your relationship complexity and the strength of the material in a with your audience? As the move of Art from spider’s web, which our scientists are traditional gallery spaces, to street and apparently currently trying to reproduce for especially to online platforms — as Instagram work in our own structures. — increases, how would in your opinion You usevarious methods of painting and change the relationship with a globalised drawing to create chaotic effects on the audience? canvases: how do you considerthe role of Adrian Flaherty: My relationship with my chance and improvisation playing within your audience is mostly done through feedback with artistic process? the gallery staff during physical exhibitions. The Adrian Flaherty: Each painting starts with galleries and the online exhibitions continue to improvisation, when the more expressive like to present my work which is very satisfying aspects of the work are generated or when because they usually have a grasp of what is textures are laid down. Whether it is by a interesting and what makes good art. I am on sweeping curve of a piece of string to define a the website Etsy with some details of my form or a thrown mix of paint onto the canvas. paintings uploaded to give a better feel of the Chance then often takes over to create new textures of the paint, but I have been told that forms, textures and effects which I later try to my paintings are much better viewed in person. develop, accentuate or edit away. This final I have exhibited outside the UK when I was stage can take very much longer to bring all the part of a group show in Venice and I have had effects and colours together. Sometimes offers from other galleries in major cities though, as I mentioned, I return to paintings including New York, so I am happy that my with fresh eyes after they had been in storage work is getting to be seen and enjoyed for a long time and worked on some more, worldwide. It obviously takes a while to hone finding solutions to parts that don’t quite work skills and ideas and develop a portfolio that with other areas, or I have been known to leads to more solo shows, and this opportunity totally redo paintings with other layers built up to explain some of my art is another good step on top. The original subject matter sometimes on the road to be able to consider myself a becomes less important, and I concentrate professional artist. I think the Covid virus came more on the mark making process. So, I find just as my work was gaining more recognition the expressive aspects and the use of chance in and I am very happy that things worldwide are my work is often the most important factor finally getting back to normal for most of us on because everything thereafter, that makes the that front. I tried Instagram painting, is indebted to it. This is again very https://www.instagram.com/adrianfhomeworks similar to us humans and our reliance on nature as a method to share my work to a wider and the environment that we are in. audience for atime and received some good You are an established artist and over the comments, but I think that it definitely suits years your works have been exhibited in many some people’s work and personalities more