Non-representational abstract oil painting exploring inner states of mind through colour form and surface texture. Contemporary painting using oil on canvas.

Non-representational abstract painting

In the tradition of 20th century non-objective abstract art (non-representational art) my paintings are based on the drama that arises when painterly elements meet and interact on the canvas.

Contemporary abstract oil painting

Today oil painting seems to be the favoured medium of increasingly few artists. Many feel that fast drying acrylics better meets the requirements of an impatient contemporary artist. Personally I find that the versatile, slow-drying medium of abstract oil painting is tremendously well suited to explore and express the contemporary human predicament - a flux and a process rather than something static or unequivocal.

My abstract oil painting technique, which involves a sequence of creation, destruction and new creation, reflects my fascination with the fleeting concept of time and how traces left by the cycles of history can confer a sense of timelessness.

To me all aspects of abstract oil painting become means of making discoveries about the world and myself.

Eva Ryn Johannissen