less is more. An 11.59 Publication




 An 11.59 Publication

steve coel






less is more.


having spent a period creating pictures that i increasingly 

felt uncomfortable with  i felt i really needed to break away and 

make pictures that were more spontaneous, intuitive, abstract, 

even improvised.


struck by both the attitude and approach to creativity of Billy 

Childish, it got me thinking.


so recently i've been trying to remove the possibility of a 

narrative in my pictures. this is a very difficult thing to 

achieve. in the studio we discussed the possibility of removing 

titles to pictures and using numbers only. 

but what about the sequence created? 

episodic ideas? 


even having a working title Stryd Fawr / Stryd Uchel [ 2016 ] 

would inevitably, it was felt, conjure up a framework for 

interpretation, no matter how the pictures were made.


so, like Billy Childish, i'll work within the limits i create, 

not others.

steve coel  
An 11.59 Publication

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