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Batcules paints in a distinct abstract layered, textural technique and visual alphabet that pushes the creative driving force of colour.

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Abstract painting expands beyond the traditional toolbox in an out-of-the-box process that reaches beyond the rules and perspective of 3D reality.

Shelley Batcules combines traditional, industrial and technological tools and mediums to stimulate inspiration and drive invention. Be conscious of the sub-conscious. Documenting the conscious “awake” and subconscious “dreaming” states of being is a process that opens the mind, spirit and soul to transcendent landscapes. This liberation from rules and constructed boundaries opens fresh ways of contemplating and notating in an expansive way that captures ideas taken from all disciplines and points of interest.

An open minded approach in terms of considering any and all tools from of the trades throughout history offers valuable opportunities to look at life in the full spectrum.

An example is to paint with a knife and fork, and put a power tool to work to spread the picture.

Abstraction provides a new view and process of multi-dimensional thinking that enables a skill set that expands to every field of study - one of the many reasons art is the root of smART, is so important.

The Colour of Human Emotions

Abstraction is about expansion and the ability to see the micro to the macro. Batcules is driven by colour and the goal to create an abstract layered textured technique that is a visual alphabet comprised of patterns of dots, pixels and/or lozenges of colour mixed using the scientific principles of colour theory with the intent to create tapestries of complex psychological colour relationships and vibrations. The patterns and colour relationships can be harmonic and/or disruptive depending on the colour formula and palette, the movement and vibration of the pattern and how the composition forms the subject matter.

The exploration of human emotions using the psychology of colour and the therapeutic effects of colour are other major interests for Batcules. During Batcules’ academic studies she had a keen interest in the painter Wassily Kandinsky and the German philosopher Goethe and their belief that colour had a strong impact on the human mood and emotion. A key goal is to provoke the spectator with a powerful visual sensory experience that will provoke an openminded approach to viewing new pictures and ideas which in turn promotes the power of new exploration, inspires discovery, and endorses people of all ages and from all places to embrace and appreciate new and unusual landscapes that have the potential to expand their horizons beyond that which is recognizable in the conscious concrete world only.

explore human emotions

"PIXELISM" is a distinct creative process

"PIXELISM" is a distinct creative process and visual expression in painting, developed by Shelley Batcules, that explores the impact of technology and science on art. The name or term “PIXELISM” describes the visual attributes of the painted surface in the contemporary sense, referencing the idea we now live in a digital World where pixels form pictures. The formal application of “PIXELISM” ranges from thick square shapes stokes of pure paint and thick square strokes holding various mixed media elements.

“PIXELISM” connects the dots of past, present and future...

The optical effect of “PIXELISM” derives from the historical tradition of Pointalism. Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" was coined by art critics in the late 1880s.