Mate­ri­als used:

Oil, oil pas­tel, poly­filla, cold wax, char­coal, kitchen fork, sticks, brushes, knives on board. A radio and a gui­tar at hand are ben­e­fi­cial, and oh!, a cup of tea.

In some cases I am mind­ful of what forms I would like to con­vey but the work will invari­ably move into some­thing else as I explore and learn about colour and the rela­tion­ship between forms placed in the paint­ing pro­vid­ing ques­tions like ‘how does one force work / influ­ence the other?’.

I am being instructed and informed by this medium, it is both a delight and a chal­lenge to paint and I like that dynamic. Some pieces are made swiftly, oth­ers require more involve­ment or are painted over.

I would rather the viewer inter­pret what they see and pro­vide their own title and story because of their own per­sonal asso­ci­a­tion to the work . The titles I give are merely a sug­ges­tion and may come up dur­ing or after the work is fin­ished, pro­vid­ing my own connection.

State of Arriving

His­tory:

At pri­mary school in East Coker we were encour­aged to illu­mi­nate let­ters at the begin­ning of His­tory essays, the paper was foolscap so you could reduce the vol­ume of words to allow space for the illus­tra­tion (I liked those odds). My first expe­ri­ence of see­ing and repro­duc­ing cave paint­ings. Thank you Mr and Mrs Aitken.

Sec­ondary school: Art was the only sub­ject in which I could express myself fully, with grat­i­tude to the teacher Mr Speck who was also a jazz devotee.

Both my chil­dren stud­ied fine art and I inher­ited their remain­ing paint­ing mate­ri­als when they’d com­pleted their stud­ies, and I have built upon this ever since.

Future:

Joy in simplicity.

Hay­ward Slater

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