MCCREEDY has honed a monochromatic blue vocabulary in his work since he started to paint in his early 20‘s. His endeavour to explore the universe through this one colour is a life-long pursuit, that ultimately led him to develop his own intense pigment of blue. In his works, the colour blue is as much the subject (protagonist) of his art, as any object he paints.
The heroes of Astract Expressionism (Pollock, Rothko, De Kooning) serve as tremendous inspiration for MCCREEDY. Their gestural approaches of painting, full of unleashed and profound emotion are echoed throughout his works. "forget the grid, and to hell with order. I need to celebrate the colour blue and the chaos of my strokes in a grand way." Much of his painting is imbued with a powerful surge of emotive expressionism. Discovering an emotive power with clarity of the materials that he uses to execute his paintings. Disciplined by single colour, focusing on material exploration, the creative gesture and the spiritual connection between the artist and his work. He seeks to transcend visionary barriers. The work itself becomes a memory and an artifact symbolic of the artist's conversation with the raw material that brought the painting into creation.
Image: „Tribal portrait studies“, 200 x 200 cm, pigments and oil on canvas.
