BIO

James Peach is a Queer "Vancouver" based artist who's paintings, impacted by automatist modes of working, function for Peach as a meditative retreat in their production. While in active addiction, Peach through painting sought to mitigate the racing thoughts and impulsive reactions to everyday life by tapping into a subconscious visual language.

 

Being unencumbered of the pressures of intentional painting gestures, tangential biomorphic shapes took form. These shapes at times loosley resemble human anatomy, and the "gesture"  that they are derivative of aspects of the human figure operates in a grey area of intention. As shapes are carved into the pictorial space, Peach turns to reference photos of the human figure, for example ears, but also references his/their own abstract conceptions of the figure. 

 

While towing the lines of realism and abstraction, conscious intention and subconscious gestures Peach then renders the figurative shapes with an understanding of value, highlights and reflected shadows. Viewers are presented with an abstract anatomic-like landscape attempting to tap into their own subconscious "data base" of figurative references resulting in common remarks such as "I can see a..." or "it looks like..."

 

In sobriety Peach continues to work through and discover the meaning of visual language while developing a more intimate relationship with the biomorphic figures and furthering the shapes ability to move through space.