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Hiromi
2008, Acrylic on Canvas, 48 X 72 inches

Tivadar Bote’s large-scale acrylic paintings are like excavations. Canvases are layered with washes of translucent paint and finished with bold brushstrokes and deep pools of colour. The work is both lyrical and dramatic and expresses the artist’s joy of painting.

“Although I strive for a strong intuitive approach in my process, I hope to achieve a strong meditative quality in the finished pieces. I am fully challenged with this development of "unearthing" a reality which lies beneath the superficial appearance of things. As I have worked through this evolving process, the pieces have evoked "impressions" of both specific landscapes and abstractions of a given place and mood. The paintings are as much about the process of abstracting forms and the action of painting as well as achieving a personal, meditative aesthetic.”

New

Hiromi Series

This is a new series of works based on further developing my approach to color surfaces and reflections. Throughout the process of spreading and layering color mixtures, I have developed an interest in wave movement and ocean surfaces. The characteristics of wave structure (crest and trough) has opened up the experience of observing light in the context of abstracted forms and color movements.

These explorations of color fluctuations and visual propagations provide opportunities to fully appreciate, as a painter, the phenomenon of light dispersion and refraction on the ocean’s surface.

Tivadar Bote 2008

Japanese Translations

Hama “Shore, beach”
Hamako “Child of the shore”
Kishiko “Child of the seashore”
Mizuko “Water child (pure character)”
Nagisa “The seashore”
Nami “Surf, wave”
Ran “Water lily”
Shizue “Quiet inlet”
Taura “Many lakes; many rivers.”
Nishi Kai “West Sea”
Higashi Kaku “East Point”
Kaijou “of the Sea”
Hiromi “Beautiful Ocean”