Eberhard Ross (German, b. 1959) has been painting and drawing for more than thirty years. He painstakingly covers canvases, aluminum, and sheets of drawing paper with calligraphic networks of lines and patterns that develop organically and repetitively. For the artist this is something of a meditative process - the interior of the work is slowly revealed as the artist scrapes away the upper layer of paint with a sharp point.

Ross is fascinated by patterns in nature, such as the spiral forms of shells, leaves, butterfly wings, and plant cells. As he tries to interpret the natural ‘lines and curves’ found in nature, he is also exploring how the tones and hues of colour are affected by the mark-making. As we learn more about the laws of natural science through advancing technologies of astronomy, microscopy, and time-lapse photography, it becomes clear that similar patterns of structure and energy occur in the cosmos and in our own world. For those studying Eastern philosophies, there is a familiarity with the idea that everything exists in a continuously dynamic relationship and that there are principles underlying the natural flows of Nature. In essence, this is what Ross is trying to convey a sense of in his work.