The Goulburn Regional Art Gallery will feature Wilde’s work throughout the month of September as part of their Snapshot artist program.

At near two metres in height, his mixed media work Mulwaree will be on display in the GRAG foyer until October 1.

Wilde writes that his work “is pure abstraction and not planned or intended as a representation of any external object or my own mental states.” It simply is what it becomes from the moment it begins.

He works predominately on steel as a canvas for his pieces, listing Jackson Pollock and Dale Frank as inspirations.

No paintbrushes are used in the process of creation; instead, Wilde tackles the steel base with an angle-grinder and heat-lamps before pouring paint directly from the tin, and even using syringes, to achieve layers upon layers of colour.

“Sometimes, if I do not like how a piece is going, I will set it on fire with gasoline or leave it outside in the rain for six months and see if nature can improve it…” he writes on his website simonwilde.com

“Much of the texture and complexity of the images you see are the result of natural processes such as gravity, oxidisation and evaporation. That is probably why many of the features resemble satellite imagery - they are the same natural forces which shape the surface of the planet at work in the microcosm of my sheets of steel.”

An artist talk will be held on Wednesday (September 17) at 11am, where Wilde will present a slideshow of his work and talk about his influences, inspirations and process.