Terrence Gough

Background -Head of Cosgrove High School’s department of art craft and design since 1977 -Painting classes for adult education and a private art school -President of the Arts Society for many years -Curator of the Cosgrove Gallery, and co-ordinator of creative arts programs in the community linking art, music, speech, dance and drama. -Exhibitions in his own right as artist since 1971. Description of approach to his work Love of the landscape, gardens, the environment Understanding the subject matter, but using instinct and intuition to interpret it Abstracting the subject to allow for a personal and fresh interpretation Composition, tension, colour relationships and surface qualities can be explored through the use of  mixed media Mixed media allows for overlap in surface and deeper meanings as the work and the thinking behind it moves through different stages Spontaneity, simplification, vitality are important ingredients . Colour is the most exciting of the visual elements. Used with imagination, colour can be many things: brilliant, sombre, severe, explosive, jaunty, out of this world Inspired by Juniper, Daws, Williams, Streeton, Monet, as well as  the masters of Eastern Art, with their total control of movement and line, and the washes which express this. Paintings are evocations of time, change and mood and are in themselves  another stage in a journey of exploration.