Mark Jessett makes drawings and paintings. From 1993-1996 he studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths’ College, London. Loose Loose elliptical forms appear frozen in movement. Some shapes are barely complete, while others appear solid and fully formed; they draw our attention or remain obscure, there is abundance, confusion, emptiness and calm. The drawing suggests very simple narratives the forms share a common direction, there is a sense of movement, there was a beginning and there will be an end. The viewer can imagine the pace of the forms' movement, their origin and their demise. The activity of drawing - the exploration of line, colour, transparency and opacity - underpins this. Tension and harmony appear between the well-defined shapes, faint marks and mistakes. Opacity and translucence bring levels of weight and depth, presence and near-absence are invoked, so the forms become notional entities appearing and disappearing.
