CERI H. PRITCHARD

"I am intrigued by the precarious state of the environment we live in. Contemporary life is filled with uncertainty and threat and my painting attempts to express the delicate balance between opposing forces, such as comfort and unease, chaos and order or even sanity and insanity. Consequently, I feel driven to find a different kind of visual language; the decisions I make and their consequences are lived out in my paintings.

 

My painting has developed through lived experience. I explore iconography that combines decorative and representational forms. I am fascinated by the illusory, the irrational, and the absurd. My visual vocabulary probes the psychological effects of shapes, colours, and patterns. I am not looking for meanings or justification; it is the engagement with a process, depending on the decisions I make, the result is an enduring image that transcends its fabrication.

 

Exploration and experimentation are essential ingredients in these pieces. Themes and motifs evolve and collide, imploding or reappearing later. One of which, television, an omnipresent device that has invaded our modern homes, is an element that has frequented my paintings in various guises. Although for the most part, my TVs are outdated shadows of our ultra-modern flat screens, it is their ominous invasion of our homes and the sinister precursor of the technology that occupies our lives that concerns me.

 

My images are a means of reconciliation with personal demons and a confrontation with a longing that is the inner core of everyone. It is a personal documentation of who I am and the time in which I live."

 

Ceri H Pritchard

July 2026