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Rowan Belcher #17(detail) Project#12 2011 Oil on Board. private collection of the artist.

Excerpt from MFA dissertation Painting Exile and Return (The New Frontiers of Modernity) 2009:

The painter Bernard Frize has contributed to the pre and post millenarian period. He uses paint with purpose but at times its application and the procedures he uses are very simplistic and he produces a style that has reduced painting to its most pure form, the application of colour and paint on its support...
Bernard Frize has consistently used colour and its application to the surface as the core activity of his process. His surfaces are usually coated in white resin which he uses as a ground on which he applies paint with wide brushes. These glide across the surface depositing fine traces of colour that weave and overlap as they pass across it. The viewer is constantly engaged in the process of discovering how and where overlaps occur. Thus they are drawn into the process which is far from simple and the more you observe the more you are drawn into the work’s complexities. When looking at his work it is impossible not to attempt to mentally reconstruct his process. Trying to determine such things as surface and ground I am drawn into trying to decipher the before and after of his layers. The process becomes paramount to the viewing of the work. The question that constantly arises is how the artist achieved this effect?..

Belcher, R. (2009). Painting, Exile and Return (The New Frontiers of Modernity) Unpublished MFA dissertation. Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland, New Zealand.

This work #17 was produced in 2011 post MFA and was part of the exhibition at Tairawhiti Museum, Project#12. Embedded in my process, the techniques of great French painter Bernard Frize.
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