My paintings perpetuate and work themselves out on the surface, being continuously built up and reworked.
Paint is applied liberally in thick daubs, poured on and scraped off, using brushes, knives, sticks, spoons and paint straight out of the tube. But also more delicately, more considered, with smaller brushes, drizzles and dots.

The paintings inform themselves towards an unknown end, with an idea that they are to be alive, like all in nature, through a process of symbiosis and evolution. The finished image is a recording of that process.
Loosely exploring gestural abstraction, action painting and colour field painting, paint is unloaded freely and impulsively to create work that is energetic and vibrant, evocative, ambiguous, at once becoming and falling apart.

Canvases often become sculptural through their development, with layers of paint applied over weeks, months and years. The information crystallising into immersive and textured atmospheres, like ecosystems or worlds you can peer into and explore.

Artist C.V

Carney exhibited in solo shows at The Rag Factory, London in 2009, 2011 and 2012 and at the Brewery, Cheltenham 2007. Group shows include Untitled, Scintill art, Garden Room, Barbican, London, 2010; Pittville Degree Show, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, 2008 and the Hans Brinker Budget Trophy, Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, Amsterdam, 2007. He completed a residency at The Brewery, Cheltenham, 2007. He was included in The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2012. A print of his, Trojan Horse, was included in the Government Art Collection in 2012. Carney exhibited at Westminster reference library, London, 2014. Small White Elephant and the Yard, London, 2018. And more recently At The Hundred Years Gallery group show ‘Change’.