stem & wing series¬Ý 2007
this body of work comes as a gathering of ideas surrounding the process of painting and the building of a finished piece. it involves an aesthetic¬Ý balance between positive & negative space, depth of colour & white; between drawing with graphite & painting with acrylic; between gravity & floating, motion & stillness, place & infinity.
the stem & wing paintings are literally a combination of my recent more minimal white series ‘stone/flora’ and the past colour and shape saturated work. mentally they feel like arriving; emotionally they translate as organic explorations of my love of colour.
the layering of paint, sometimes five or six layers underneath what appears to be a solid colour is a process that is essential to the finished pieces. there are metaphors in the elements that peek through the surface and there are stories within the play of white, negative space with the colour.
there is a certain physicality in the turning, lifting, wiping, moving¬Ý the paint and the matrixes that i believe plays into the feeling of motion. these factors communing with a meditative awareness of watching the images grow landed me in a new mindset with my painting practice and i believe, with each of the final pieces.
they are half about place and half about the journey to that place.
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