About

Jeremy West (b.1970) is a designer and abstract artist. He has worked for over 30 years creating furniture, spaces and now art.

He works from his studio in Melides, Portugal. A place that gifts him huge inspiration.

The aim in all his disciplines has been that of reduction. To reduce the unnecessary, the noise that detracts from the true focus of the space, the piece, the work.

In his latest work, which started with the series, ‘A Moment in Melides’, he selected single pixels of colour to stretch horizontally across the canvas, capturing time as a stationary plane. The work explains how reducing visual noise strengthens the feeling of the location – we don’t need the complexities that make up a space in order to feel the essence of it.

The ‘Comporta’ series builds on this idea, reducing more complex views that have a wider spectrum of references, colours and movement.

Colours in repetition lose their strength and meaning, so by focusing each single available colour into a horizontal moment, it is given a strength and a dominance that is otherwise lost.

Jeremy’s work continues to refine this reduction of the environments he experiences, as he explores ways to express a feeling of peace, calm and tranquillity.