During a recent tutorial with Robin Warnes, my attention was drawn to the work of the French artist Bernard Piffaretti (b.1955), who consistently features a divided canvas similar to my current project Dwelling Fusion.
Interestingly, here the commonality ends. Whereas Piffaretti creates abstract images beginning on either the right or left hand side of the canvas, he then reproduces the painting experience on the other side. In contrast, my work melds two equivalent figurative images essentially treating them as one individual subject.
In this sense our two approaches could not be more different. This I find quite fascinating and think it would be interesting to build on the ideas and experiment further with these techniques. Combining the different styles has the potential to lead to a plethora of possibilities.
I have included some more images of my current work in today’s blog entry. These works are concerned with generalised images of my impression of the differing landscapes surrounding me, which are both urban and rural. I have divided the canvas as usual but have decided to try out a new technique using spectacle frames as an aperture to help channel the viewer’s attention to the centre of the canvas allowing more abstract artistic licence to infiltrate the peripheral vision. As a spectacle wearer this to me is quite a true representation of the way in which I see the world framed by frames.
