Aimee Rytenskild takes a process-based approach to painting and sculpture. Her first solo exhibition Surfaces explores the relationship between the physical action of mark making, and the role of the unconscious mind that drives it.  Brilliant colours are applied with both vigorous and controlled movements, utilizing the medium of abstraction as an interpreter of unconscious dialogue.

The use of multiple mediums such as acrylic, pastel and collage, using a palette knife to both liberally apply paint and scratch it off again, creates layers of intense colour and texture. Using this process of application and reduction produces dense and energetic imagery that bears a strong emotive quality.

Paintings are given the space to evolve in both style and form. This freedom encourages each work to emerge from a place of constant experimentation and reconfiguration, creating an aesthetic based on a rich narrative of joy, energy and vigour.

Three dimensional works visually echo the density displayed within each painting, however when viewed within a spatial context, becomes an immersive environment in which the materiality of the work begins to dictate and seep into the space.

A vibrant palette often thrown and splashed over surfaces and refined by considered mark making results in imagery that pulsates with energy, triggering a contemplation of the subconscious mind driving these impulses and actions. Just as our own psyche is built upon layers of experience, so is this collection of work.