Owen Hart - Phi Polychroma

This exhibition is the culmination of 8 years of painting by Pembrokeshire-based artist Owen Hart.

Wilfully ambiguous, his paintings take on lives of their own, the myriad forms and earthy colours evoking themes of nature, geometry and dreaming.

Employing a full chromatic spectrum, Owen's paintings seek harmony in contrast and balance between opposites, whether between complimentary colours, curves and straight lines or light and dark tone.

Owen often uses grids, geometry and number in structuring a creative playground, breaking down the process into manageable steps: the joy of colour mixing and the careful application of paint, one square at a time.

Spirals thread through each grid marking out squares within rectangles accroding to a golden ratio derived from the Fibonacci sequence. This ratio is the irrational number phi.

Φ = 1.61803398875

The Fibonacci sequence, a remarkable sequence of numbers made simply by recursively adding each term to the previous term to generate the next term.

When expanded out dimensionally, this sequence of numbers gives rise to spiral paths that can be seen throughout nature, in the growth patterns of sunflowers, pine cones and shells to name a few examples.

The Gallery is open from 11am - 8pm Tues-Sun throughout February