My work represents universally recognisable objects: lemons, circles, geometric shapes, the human figure.   The act of seeing should create a state of empathy between viewer and the work - on a universal level. 

SUDESH PRASAD

A series of bold monochromatic abstract drawings, which work alongside large format paintings. This drawing is part of the "Also Sprach Zarathustra" series. 
The composition follows the recent work around space and perception. These purely abstract forms create tension and counterpoint using simple black and white. 
The works are intense black/grey using compressed charcoal and pigments.

Charcoal on paper

Drawing

Abstract

Geometric

A series of bold monochromatic abstract drawings, which work alongside large format paintings. This drawing is part of the "Also Sprach Zarathustra" series. 
The composition follows the recent work around space and perception. These purely abstract forms create tension and counterpoint using simple black and white. 
The works are intense black/grey using compressed charcoal and pigments.
Paper is Fabriano "Tiepolo" archival.

Abstract geometric

Monochrome

Black And White

This is part of the lemon series, starting with identifiable objects, items and repeating the patterns to move towards abstraction.  This new series is part incorporates his use of the lemon form with strong abstract colourfield areas. Muted earth tones further add to the reductive, restricted space in the drawing.
This work reduces the representational forms to the minimum whilst still engaging the viewer with the ideas of space, memory and perception.

Charcoal

Acid free Paper

Chalk

Reduced and erased lemon forms on a geometric structure

This is part of the lemon series, starting with identifiable objects, items and repeating the patterns to move towards abstraction.  This new series is part incorporates his use of the lemon form and the abstract circle painting. He works to create a body of work that encapsulates craft, abstraction and intellectual engagement.
With this drawing the artist inverts the circle and ovoid shapes used throughout recent works.

repeating lemon patterns in a bisected ovoid composition

Lemons

Nature Morte

Still Life

Stilleben

Abstraction from reality. This new series uses a muted color palette - the lemon yellow has been subverted by earth tones.
Looking becomes seeing when the viewer lets go of the expected and moves to the abstracted.
The addition of the large grey element asks the viewer to discern the pectoral space for themselves - what "space" do the elements inhabit? The large flat panel of grey adds an abstract colour field to this composition.


Oil on canvas

Painting

Lemon forms repeating in a geometric space

Color Field

Spatial

Abstraction from reality. This new series uses a muted color palette - the lemon yellow has been subverted by earth tones. The progression from the earlier works in this series is linked by form, not colour.
Looking becomes seeing when the viewer lets go of the expected and moves to the abstracted.
The addition of the oval element asks the viewer to discern the pectoral space for themselves - what "space" do the elements inhabit?
The format is also larger than the preceding works in this series.

repeating lemon forms within an arch shaped composition

Abstraction from reality. This new series uses a muted color palette - the lemon yellow has been subverted by earth tones.
Looking becomes seeing when the viewer lets go of the expected and moves to the abstracted.
The addition of the oval element asks the viewer to discern the pectoral space for themselves - what "space" do the elements inhabit?
The format is also larger than the preceding works in this series.

Repeating lemon forms in a restricted palette with an oval structure

This is part of the lemon series, starting with identifiable objects, items and repeating the patterns to move towards abstraction.  The muted colors reference the grisaille effect used in the past in European painting. He works to create a body of work that encapsulates craft, abstraction and intellectual engagement.

Fabriano Paper

Six black lemon forms repeating pattern in an ovoid structure

Oval

Abstraction from reality - using common shapes and repeating them to achieve an abstraction by removing reality. Looking becomes seeing when the viewer lets go of the expected and moves to the abstracted.
The addition of the oval element asks the viewer to discern the pectoral space for themselves - what "space" do the elements inhabit?
The large format oil paintings are the continuation of the repeating pattern series to explore abstraction from reality - identifiable objects from the world.

Repeating lemon forms in an oval composition

SUDESH PRASAD

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