Lorimoto Gallery is thrilled to announce Wildlife Analysis, a solo exhibition of paintings by Jon Elliot. In these works, finely tuned linear passages pulse with energy and rhythm, weaving across luminous fields of color and softly shifting organic silhouettes. Bands, arcs, and channels of paint carve pathways through the surface, suggesting unseen currents that drift outward into deep space. The resulting spacescapes feel at once intimate and vast, inviting viewers to float along these trajectories as if carried on invisible routes through a distant galaxy, each curve bending like an orbit through unfolding interstellar terrain scattered with flickers of light and chromatic resonance.

Elliot’s practice begins with what he describes as “the poetics of geometric patterning.” From an improvisational foundation of layered, linear, vector-like lines, he allows patterns to overlay and interact, then gradually organizes the surface into more specific shapes implied by this visual murmur. Fragments of memory surface within these swirling aggregations of line and color, joining together into emergent forms. By painting out distracting areas and pushing them back into deep space, he isolates and amplifies the most compelling passages of patterning.

Within this process, forms arise that hover between states: figure and landscape, flora and fauna, mathematical geometry and naturalistic form. These transitional entities are carved out of the painted field and brought forward, suspended as if in a state of becoming. Elliot’s paintings bear the mark of long, disciplined devotion to the medium, distilled into a confident and singular visual language where structure and spontaneity coexist. Layers of gesture, repetition, and carefully modulated tone and hue reveal a method that is both analytical and exploratory, attentive to the subtle thresholds where abstraction approaches recognition.

In Wildlife Analysis, Elliot extends this language into a realm that feels simultaneously terrestrial and cosmic. The works echo patterns found in natural systems—migrations, murmurations, currents—while evoking the expansive stillness of outer space. Viewers are invited to immerse themselves in this body of work: canvases that shimmer between abstraction and celestial cartography, as captivating and hypnotic as a nebula slowly blooming across infinity.