Artwork
Cornwall based artist Mike Hindle creates inspirational seascape and landscape paintings, Mike's paintings are a riot of uplifting colour, embued with the subtlety of considered composition. The images evolve from a process of layering marks, colours and shapes over each other, and reworking the surface until a harmonious balance is achieved. "There is an intrinsic need to create that has always been at the core of my being. My work is about being conscious, being alive, driven by a search for balance, an equilibrium. The painting process is a deliberate search for meaning, a desire for a worthwhile existence. I want to live, to feel alive and leave something that speaks on an emotional level. This search for meaningful expression is fundamental to the working process. Starting a painting is like standing on the edge of a cliff for a brief moment before falling. Energy builds, the mind speeds through ideas about composition, the placement of marks and colours. These thoughts spin and accelerate until a moment of clarity arrives, that is the cue for the canvas to receive its first mark. From that moment nothing else exists."
