Govinder Nazran
"Before I begin a painting, I start with a very rough preliminary colour sketch, which I may have done weeks or months ago. I keep my sketches along with notes and ideas in dozens of sketchbooks. The books are overstuffed with ragged bits of paper containing ‘those thoughts’ that just pop into your head unannounced at the strangest times.

With the aid of my sketches, I know exactly what I’m going to paint when I’ve pinned up my canvas. It is very spontaneous. I have all my colours pre-determined. I use solid oil bars directly onto canvas, manipulating the paint with my fingers, using no brushes. The paint reacts with the heat from my fingers and the more you work it, the more fluid it becomes. It’s a wonderful and unusual medium to work with.

Composition usually begins life as pure abstract shapes. Flow of line and form, as well as ‘negative shapes’, are important here. I also look for connections between shapes and link them with connecting lines. The balance and harmony of colour pull the whole composition together. The end result is part defined and part abstract.
In my ‘pure’ abstracts I look to nature and emotion, and build on that. From life seen through the window of a speeding car or the blurred reflection of a city seen through bleary eyes, to the depiction of a single moment of intense emotion expressed through layers of paint. It’s a very pure art form."

--Excerpt from Gregory Editions

 

Index: 1. Sexy Beast 2. Slack Alice 3. Der Auslander 4. Happy Monday 5. Ruby Tuesday 6. Gangster IV 7. Gangster II 8. Shining Sinners 9. Magnificent Seven 10. Godfather 11. Elvis (sculpture) 12. Archie (sculpture) 13. Bandit (sculpture) 14. Bullseye (sculpture) 15. Big Blue (sculpture) 16. Lars (sculpture) 17. Dog Lover (sculpture) 18. Scratch and Sniff (sculpture) 19. Twins (sculpture) 20. Lucifer (sculpture)

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