Here is a collection of abstract works that speak to all viewers, if they'll take the time to enter into the conversation. And no, it's not a foreign language.

Although Seelander's imagery hints at oriental origins with their design and calligraphic brush marks, they are less related to eastern writing as they are akin to spontaneous outbursts of fervour. For example in the series Untitled, you'll find multiple exhibits of blue fields articulated with yellow splashes, and warm earth red surfaces decorated with gold squares, and cool whites hosting bright reds, while all have the obligatory bold black brush stokes. These are not intended as Japanese scrolls although they may well have been inspired by haiku poetry as they have a rhythm and rightness to them.

Seelander employs a vocabulary of personal motifs that seem born of the flourish of a familiar action or a distillation of an idea. For example the X and Scribble in black could be the result of a well practised movement. while the horizontal line punctuated with three or more circles and the vertical line topped with a circular brush stroke suggest truncated forms in nature. In some exhibits these motifs lead us toward ideas of  landscape. For example when we look into the expanse of yellow/orange colour supporting a clump of those thin black marks topped with linear circles in Late Summer, we find a connection to our 'golden soils' making burnt floral offerings to the dry air under a sky bleached white by heat.

As well as the imagery, these large compositions on canvas and paper invite and ignite the imagination with their textural effects. Seelander plays with the surface of the work using plaster, sawdust, brickdust, various oxides and brushes laden with pigment to create paintings thick enough to etch into with words or patterns. Then too there are those works where the surface seems to be only lightly coated and marked with hand written thoughts or sketches that have been re-considered and half rubbed out. In all these practices the actions and thought processes of the artist are laid bare so viewers feel they are witnessing the development of the artwork as it happens.

This is a highly satisfying exhibition in its concept and visual presentation.