Christopher Pompa

mosaics / collages & cut-outs / paintings 

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My motivation is to reinterpret the world and everything in it as it’s experienced within my own imagination.

 

I am inspired by colour and rhythm and work largely in an abstract style. Influenced by nature and my environment, I am compelled to reinterpret them, combining a variety of materials in an impressionist style.  

I use my paintings as backgrounds such as sunsets and seascapes, as well as for the mosaic pieces that are layered upon them. I use photography as I’m drawn to the relationship between light and dark and everything in-between. For instance, I take photographs of items such as wine bottles, perfume bottles and lighters at different times of the day in different locations, capturing colour at various stages of light exposure. The flowers used in many of my mosaic pieces are photographs of the foyer ceiling in the Bellagio Hotel Las Vegas, which is an ocean of coloured glass sculpture, and blues and greens are captured from seas and skies from around the world, from the Amalfi Coast to the Indian Ocean.

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My work also contains a multitude of objects that I find in everyday life, from broken glass on a pavement to driftwood found on the beach. Transformation of the discarded or unwanted is at the centre of my work. I seek to find a place where it can be seen anew in a constantly evolving cycle of colour and shape.