It is early in Paul Maseyk’s career as a painter and yet these paintings testify to him being an exciting and unique new ‘voice’.

There are two parallel threads exhibited in this body of work, and these are connected via the uniform palette of red, off white and black. Threads are also connected by the consistent relationship between humour and a more formal balance.

Maseyk explores pattern and space in quirky networks of plains of colour that resemble patterns and puzzles. These are ideologically connected to biomorphic and anthropomorphic patterns within the macro-micro cosmic worlds. They are technical and mechanical in tone, but also playful. The puzzle-like aspect of these works is appealing, and elements are orgainsed neatly as if the artist is tidying something away, or making sense of something through a process of reconfiguration.

The other thread here, is more like doodle-art, and combines the pattern aspect with a line that meanders. These works have the charm and appeal of a subconscious scrawl, and we peer into them looking for information or tell-tale signs . . . of something. There is a quirky busy-ness within these linear works that reminds us of an adolescent boy’s fascination with blood-letting and machinery. But these paintings are also affectionately reminiscent of the need to scribble and make, even if only in answer to subconscious impulses.