Jeremy Ramsey is principally known for his colour filled paintings that reflect strong modernist art elements. Coming back to full time art after a hiatus of about 40 years when Ramsey enjoyed a successful career as a businessman, he has for the last two decades worked as a full time painter. He has been exploring subject matter such as the figure, still life and landscape expressed in a very unique and often abstract format. Colour is a central theme that runs throughout his oeuvre, expressing emotions and feelings in a free-spirited manner that emerges from his subconscious mind. Ramsey says, “My sense of colour is probably influenced by having lived a life in the sun and the brilliance of many years in the east without which I would not have been able to paint”.
 
For many artists colour is very powerful and is something one should use with caution but not for Ramsey, he almost has a hunger for brightness and no fear of expressing the varied hues one next to the other. In the practice of art, often there is no linear progression of thought and ideas.  Concerns and connections come from different sources not necessarily from one realization leading to the next.  The subconscious mind gathers ideas, concerns, and emotions that merge with one and other, and through the lens of memories and life experiences the mind expresses ethereal qualities such that exist in Ramsey’s paintings.

Through his intimate relationship with his material and medium, various cultural aspects emerge in Ramsey’s work from aboriginal art to African and modernist art influences such as Matisse and Picasso. Finally, it is only through a deep understanding and assimilation of many years of explorations in the world of art and aesthetics that this septuagenarian’s canvases can burst forth alive with such colour and depth. Ramsey says, “I simply use my feelings to express the age in which we live, and my work is wide open to interpretation”. 

KHRŌMA: Hues of the Subconscious Mind exhibition is part of an ongoing series of art events brought to you by tcc, an ardent advocate of the arts and recipient of the Patron of the Arts Award from 2007 - 2009. 

Jointly organized with the coffee connoisseur & art-management.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it from 6 July - 30 September 2010 at the coffee connoisseur "The Gallery" 51 Circular Road, Singapore.

More info:      www.jeremyramsey.art-management.com
Website:        www.thecoffeeconnoisseur.com

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