Fugal Paintings: James Lumsden

The work is found through the process of creation, previous paintings and experiments inspire new and future possibilities. In each new painting or series, Lumsden will try and develop something that worked in a preceding piece.

He aims to create open paintings which are positive and affirming. He wants to see something brought to life, struggled for, with a sense of it having its own history, and reflective of the time spent on its creation. He often uses titles related to music, such as Fugue, Contrapuntal, Resonance, etc as analogous to the process, in the hope that the viewer will respond to the paintings as they would do to a piece of music, without the need for words. The paintings are not about music but aspire to the condition of music. As with music he is hoping the work instils some sort of feeling in the viewer.