Ceri H Pritchard : Altered States
In Altered States, Welsh artist Ceri H Pritchard delves into the volatility of contemporary existence through a restless experimental visual language that transforms lived experience into charged, surreal imagery.
Ceri's work maps a series of psychological terrains in which comfort and unease, logic and absurdity remain in constant negotiation. His work arises from an acute awareness of the precarious state of the world we inhabit, where natural and man‑made forces intersect in unstable balance. Developed through lived experience and an intuitive studio process, the paintings fuse decorative and representational forms, probing the emotional charge of shape, colour, and pattern. Recurring motifs hint at the quiet encroachment of technology into the intimacy of the home, suggesting both fascination and unease without offering resolution. Rather than seeking fixed meaning, these images record a chain of decisions, revisions, and reversals, in which themes collide, implode, and reassemble. Altered States presents Ceri's painting practice as both self‑interrogation and contemporary documentation in an ongoing attempt to reconcile inner feelings with often contradictory sensations of life today.
