Robert Mellor

Robert Mellor, 2006, Hook, acrylic and canvas over panel, 48 x 40”

In Mellor’s paintings, events and passages exist which at first glance induce the viewer to establish the relationship with different parts of the work, then to absorb the entirety of the work. A painting will meander between recognizable and unfamiliar. Each application of color shakes the foundations of previously applied paint. Colors are free from their designations to interact and often compete for attention. The same applies to the bold graphic quality of articulated pattern.  Mellor has created his own, unique form of beauty, where he willingly pairs hard edge lines, disparate forms, patterns and colors, changes the quality of paint from lustrous to flat, and shifts spatial hierarchies.