Final works
Over the past nine months I have produced a lot of different work, so I think it’s important to write a post outlines what paintings I choose to exhibition and why I chose them etc.
My main aim when setting up my exhibition was to utilize the space I was given as best I could, I hang four paintings in total, two of which where purposely created based around the size of the space.
Untitled (29) takes up almost my entire left wall. With this piece my aim was to see how colours react together to form space and how the spatial effects created as well as the size of the canvas effect how the viewer reacts to the painting. Initially I wanted to cover the entire wall so that the spectators peripheral vision would be engulfed. However after looking at the space even If I did cover the wall for the viewers vision to be immersed entirely he or she would have to be standing unnaturally close.
One of the reasons why Vir Heroicus Sublimis is so encapsulating is because you view it from the same distance you would any other, It just so happens take up your entire field of vision. For that to be true with my painting I would have had to have painted on the left and right wall also thus turning it into a kind of installation. And in addition to that I would have taken up space reserved for other work. So I choose not to.
With Untitled I focused entirely on creating and depth and dimension through my use of colour and application. Painting layer upon Layer exploring how the illusion of space can be achieved exclusively through colour. This work in particular was influenced a lot by Chris Finley and how he constructs his paintings by using ellipses of paint that change in tonal value giving his works and incredible multi layer feel.
I have also decided to use one of the outer walls of my cube, to hang a painting. Untitled (7) is a very small painting being 9.9cm on it’s longest side. It has been hung directly in the centre of the outside wall of the cube space which is 2.5 metres long. The most interesting thing about this painting, or about the way it is positioned, is that it forces the viewer to be a lot close to it than they normally would be. Due to the layout of the studio the maximum distance one can stand away from the painting is about a metre. This creates a lot of empty space when viewing the painting.
