About
George Earle-Brown is an abstract painter whose practice is rooted in intuition, material exploration, and responsiveness. He begins each work without a preconceived image or narrative, allowing the painting to evolve through a direct and open-ended engagement with paint, surface, and gesture. The ending result significantly differs from begging stages.
His paintings are shaped by layered marks, erasures, and shifts in tempo, reflecting a dialogue between control and surrender. Broad sweeps of pigment coexist with quieter passages, creating spaces that feel both expansive and intimate. Forms emerge briefly, then recede, resisting one set narrative. Central to Earle-Browns practice is an exploration of how colour and form can evoke sensation, atmosphere and perception. The pallet shifts from muted earth tones to luminous vibrant tones, evoking transitions between light and shadow, calm and turbulence.
Materiality plays a central role: delicate translucent washes coexist with dense and aggressively scraped passages, allowing traces of the process to remain visible. This tension mirrors the instability of perception - how environments are continually reshaped by time, emotion and recall. Through heavily layered gestures, erasure, and varying colour tones, the work moves between suggestion and dissolution - throughout the process. The process relies on intuition, spontaneity, and experimentation, balancing chance with deliberate control. Through layered washes of colour and expressive yet precise brushstrokes, a dialogue emerges between the process and the resulting image. Decisions are guided by looking, responding, and allowing accidents to remain visible as part of the work’s history. This process foregrounds painting as an event: temporal, physical, and experiential.
Through this varied approach, George Earle-Brown’s work resists fixed interpretation. Each painting functions as a site of encounter, where perception, memory, and sensation can unfold freely, mirroring the uncertainty and openness that define its making. Rather than depicting a specific site, the paintings invite the viewer into a space of limitless interpretation and imagination.