This abstract painting features a vibrant composition of bold, expressive brushstrokes in a range of colors, including warm yellows, greens, and reds. The overall impression is one of dynamic energy and movement, with organic, amorphous shapes and forms that evoke a sense of nature and the natural world. The artist's distinctive style and technique appear to be informed by the expressionist tradition, utilizing a gestural, improvisational approach to capture the essence of the subject matter. While the specific subject matter is not easily discernible, the work seems to convey a sense of the artist's personal interpretation or emotional response to their surroundings. ...
Often working from sketches of his travels and everyday surroundings, Max Wade reduces these sketches to their critical forms and negative space and transforms them into paintings. In this way, Wade's drawings are enlarged, rotated, and distorted, and the motifs are simplified, allowing the works to depict a layered imaginary landscape where plains interchange and motifs darken to become ambiguous. The paintings become as if alive, with a sense of rhythm, physicality, and energy. ...
