The painting expresses the cadence of musical flow through the spacing, timing, colour and lines. The rhythm of this piece has a sinusoidal wave feeling. Each colour bar represents a corresponding sound. The complicated areas are offset by the subtle quiet spaces. The sharp colours and contrasting fine lines evoke quick plucks of sound. The artwork is presented as a snapshot or remnant of a larger whole of a graphic music score. An ancient feeling is evident through the patina of layers and textural markings throughout the surface. The art panel is presented as if it was a precious object from the past.
Both Flow Adagio and Flow Andante were created to be subtle and restrained. The narrow panel was intended to live within the space rather than shout its presence. I didn’t want to pile too much in too small of a space. Both panels are musical inspired. Both communicate like background mood music. They could exist by themselves horizontally or vertically, or they could be combined to be accompany one on a stroll down the hallway.
This artwork presents a banner of colour overtop a raggedy-anne quilt like patchwork of soft colours. The top band seems to have been exposed and coming through the background.
I am constantly amazed how a simple message of information can get so confused when it is transported through different people, contexts, languages, cultures - and time. This painting exhibits glimpses of communication. From a distance this painting is a chunk of colour. Upon closer examination we discover slight workings buried under the surface and subtle colour revealing itself. A viewer with their nose close to the surface can identify glimpses of written information. Someone was present here.
Elements appear to be flying around over a surface etched with scientific or geometrical information. The painting presents itself as a flying circus pageant. On close examination the etched elements of science, knowledge and everyday things are quietly evident in the substrate.
Zeppelin and waterdroplet shapes float over the surface. Geometry elements are subtly visible etched into the background substrate. The painting presents itself as a flying circus. Perhaps a Zeppelin parade or a circus, but with the workings of science and knowledge are working quietly in the background.
A texture field that suggests our worldly elements. Imbued in the surface is a seemingly ancient pattern partially revealed through excavation. We live among giants in a delicate balance gently embracing us and giving life.
Rampallion - A ruffian or scoundrel! This painting recalls obscured layers of wallpaper, repair, and partially revealed discovery. A passive scrolling floral pattern is quietly revealed through incidental lighting.
Revealing a past by excavation of the current surface suggests that there is much more depth and history than what meets the eye. In some ways this artwork shows the artist planning their initial strokes and working through the movement of the pattern. The artist’s contemplation of pattern reveals the initial preliminary sketchy stages.
This painting presents as an old wall. Signage has come and gone. Repairs have been made with plaster and paint. Worn through everyday use. What this wall has seen? And if it could speak? History remains. The future can be written.
A wall of texture as if from an ancient cantina.
This piece was built on promises. Everything was once shiny and new and full of expectations. Now, used, old and beaten up. Repaired. Obscured. And then lost. Were the promises true?
One child in every class stands out for one reason or another. Sometimes the whiz kid will rise to the occasion and shine through and champion thinking and thought. Or sometimes they will falter and fail. A tribute to trying.
The wall sized field of texture suggest the presence of love and life around it, and the patina of texture shows off it’s ability to last and persevere. The translucent depths of layers of the encaustic medium bury past iterations of lives. Elements of wear and repair suggest a timeline of use. What the wall has seen remains fixed, but the future remains to be written.
This artwork was inspired by the Rosetta Stone. Elements of script type buried within the surface perhaps offering a offer a glimpse into past knowledge
The surface has been embedded with a Haedy Boys type of story. The story is told with each letter stamped into the wood surface.
Suggestions of buried foundations are partially revealed hinting to a past glory.
This is a story. It is probably true.
Inspired by the ancient foundations of buildings. Suggestions of buried foundations are partially revealed hinting to a past glory. Exposed elements are revealed and then become obscured, once again hiding something from inquiry.
In this panel I was experimenting with a scroll-like floral pattern, which has intrigued me lately. I establish a given pattern - and then disrupt it throughout by using different values within the pattern. Subtle colour shifts exist within the dark value colours.
Lately, I have been intrigued with a scroll-like floral pattern. The pattern is real yet abstract. I establish a pattern and then disrupt it through different exposed values within the pattern. In other floral-scroll-like-patterns I have used a dark value background. In this one I used a medium-dark value orange. To make the composition work, I had to organize the dark values/ light values within different parts of the pattern to bring the viewer’s eye around.
Created to be a chunk of blue. A punch of colour in a space. Composed structurally with lights and darks. minuscule texture upon intimate observation. Everything I look for in a painting!
On this panel I was working with the idea of creating a strong graphic shape floating over a sea of information - technology, geometry, science and communication.
The big red scribble composes the surface to a bold effect. Resembling a flame, a scribble or destruction. The format is largely a large grey format. Etched in the surface are elements of technology, science and geometry. Today’s times, there seems to be anguish at knowledge. The flame is destructive and yet the technology survives quietly in the surface.
This panel I was working with the idea of using a large chunk of metal to show off the metal’s texture. A glimpse of science and information are revealed at the cut out.
This panel I was working with the idea of a strong graphic shape floating over a sea of information - technology, geometry, science and communication. There is a wear on the institution shown here like a peeling of wallpaper.
This panel I was working with the idea of a bold graphic shape. A suggested peeling of wallpaper reveals information, lost knowledge and understanding beneath the surface. Typography is in relief across the painting’s surface. The piece has been titled to suggest how all aspects of our civilization is a construct of man, and civilized community is based on this thin, fragile veneer of common understanding.
I just wanted to create a red painting. A chunk of red. The surface is worn and suggests some kind of technical detailing. The black scribble is there to compose the surface so that the painting has a bold effect.
The big red scribble composes the surface to a bold effect. Resembling a flame, a scribble or destruction. The format is largely a large grey format. Etched in the surface are elements of technology, science and geometry. Today’s times, there seems to be anguish at knowledge. The flame is destructive and yet the technology survives quietly in the surface.
I just wanted to create a blue painting. A big chunk of blue. The surface is worn and suggests geometry and technical detailing. There is a slight suggestion of quarks and atomic tracings. The black scribble is there to compose the surface so that the painting has a bold effect.
I wanted to create a large monochromatic green painting that is composed of many versions of greens. As well, I wanted to create a surface that seemed to have had communication at one time. Glimpses of typography and other information are on the surface. The surface seems to have been neglected and repaired.