This vibrant, abstract painting showcases a dynamic composition of bold, expressive brush strokes and a vivid color palette. The canvas is filled with a harmonious blend of shapes and hues, including reds, yellows, pinks, and blues, creating a sense of movement and energy. While the subject matter is not immediately recognizable, the overall style suggests a lively, emotive interpretation of a scene or landscape. The artist's distinctive technique, characterized by the spontaneous, gestural application of paint, reflects an Expressionistic approach that aims to convey the artist's subjective experience and emotional response to the subject. ...
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. ...
