Sam Lock

Title : Light beams - 2022 Mixed technique on canvas Size : 160x160 cm His works are an exploration into the rhythms and currents of painting, a journey between and through layers, a build-up of moments in time and intuitions followed. The alchemy of the painting process transforms this time-spent into a physical and tangible history. They are an invitation to become lost and tangled in their surface, to find something new each time you look and hold the gaze, to make a connection with the senses, paintings you feel. They whisper suggestions. Each work is a mystery and a contradiction that is at once solid and substantial yet elusive. Change is a process not an event, there is a continual flow and movement around us and in us, a constant conversion of what is happening now into the past. Lock's works are made in that space, their appearance is created by it and the way they communicate relies upon it. They are not made with a system or fixed process but through an energy that is built on Change and Chance, organic and unscripted. Each painting or sculpture or space follows its own path until there is a balance between presence and absence; where there are silences and hiding places that are both poetic and activating.