Hacking Heron, 2022, oil on canvas, 60cm x 45cm
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One of Robert Dunt's Distortion Form Paintings with are inspired by music.
This painting is called Hacking Heron as it takes many of its colours from a painting by the traditional abstract British artist Patrick Heron. But Robert then took these colours and used them in his own inspirational chaotic fashion to try to create surprising beauty through his unconventional approach that twists traditions.
In essence he "hacked" the Heron painting by taking the colours and then using them in his own way like stealing notes from a song. He then covered this work with his trademark black and white Distortion Forms, a metaphor for noise, chaos and distortion.
The Jesus and Mary Chain wrote pretty "Beach Boys" like pop songs but then covered them with noise and distortion and feedback. In a similar fashion Robert painted ‘pretty’ colourful paintings and then covered them with black and white "Distortion Forms", a visual metaphor for the noise and distortion used by the Jesus and Mary Chain.
Though inspired by music these paintings are firmly rooted in the visual, and work on making original colour combinations. The paintings also reference the act of seeing, the freneticism of some sections of the paintings referencing visual experiences such as looking at, and through, the branches of tress as they shake in the wind. Like all Robert's paintings the aim is to give the viewer greater visual pleasure of the the world and the colours they see in it.
