PSYCHOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES: TRANSLATING INNER STATES INTO PAINTED FORM
Rufus Punton is a painter and printmaker. His work reflects his rural country upbringing drawing inspiration from vintage photographs from his grandparent’s collection, depicting people and rural landscapes in Victoria from the 1940s to 1960s. He seeks to reflect in a painterly format the distortion of faded memories using blurring, distortion and a loose application of paint to create a sensory atmosphere of memory, longing and nostalgia. In recontextualizing these photographic memories within a contemporary framework, he investigates how paint, as both medium and material, can be used to visually communicate complex psychological states associated with the human condition, examining how material process, surface manipulation, colour psychology, and compositional strategies can evoke affective and existential states.
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