WORKS IN PROGRESS
Recently been entertaining a more sculptural mindset. I had some wood cut a few weeks ago, and just so happened to place them in my space in such a way that was compositionally very fluent and easy to read. They are all randomly cut pieces which are all various shapes and sizes. (Picture attached) Although tempted to leave them like this and find a way of fixing them in place, I didn’t quite think that that would have been complete enough. I had initially intended to paint them in order to hang them, but that’s now changed.
So I’ve now painted a few of these pieces, again, I had a different intention for them once I started painting them, which was to hang them in order to form a square, based on some windows viewed from my space. However, once I’d painted each one and had placed them in a position to dry, their composition and colours just seemed to work magically together in the way I’d randomly placed them.
The smallest panel is a medium grey colour, the next one ultramarine, and the tallest one is a mix of vermillion and burnt umber and paynes grey. Initially I placed the ultramarine and grey together, with the blue panel behind the grey, (as pictured) sitting on a block. What was intriguing about that placement was the thin edge of unpainted wood on the grey piece which broke up the plane of painted surface and added a lighter tone. Then I added the vermillion stretch of wood behind the blue, which brightened the piece and added a lengthening dimension, combining the wall with the piece in a more flowing way.
