Jason Martin is a painter who employs manifold methods of structuring paint to address the essential question of illusion and the rhetoric of space and plane in painting. Painting is also a performative act for him, leaving room for chance to create works that are lush, attractive and full of vigour.

The recent paintings by the artist are characterised by a rhythm of constructive strokes that create a narrative of previous traces and an erasure of hidden, buried layers. As the artist elaborates on these works:

“A process of contingency, performance and necessity demonstrates through any given work here, that each is considered in its totality and asks to be afforded a faith in abandon commiserate to a marathon of false starts.” He continues: “These paintings are all by virtue, if evident by the viewer, moments of blind painted doubts. To see is to recognise and to possess meaning by default is to proclaim truth of consciousness step by qualified step.”