David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence

Pausing in front of a large free-standing black painted surface, one wonders whether it is a wall or a painting or both. The seemingly empty black monochrome surface captures and holds one’s attention. A thick, horizontal, tidal-like line of paint suspended in the blackness emerges into focus and brings with it a tactile sensation of the action of painting and wet enamel paint continuing to move downwards until it starts to dry and becomes arrested in time. Looking, one becomes sensitive and attentive to reflections on, and in, the surface – of colours