Tuesday 25 March 2014

Zeno's Pyramid


Ink and acrylic on board.

The first in a series, these paintings on shaped board use the polygons edge to determine the structures within. Leaving sections of the timber surface exposed, the painted lines extrude impossible figures, that inhabit a dynamic space within the surface.

Like Zeno's paradoxes, these paintings have no definite end. For every step taken, we must first reach half of that step, and so on, and so on. The line extends upward folding in on itself, knotting tighter and tighter as it rises, yet remains unfinished, like a pyramid without a capstone.

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Sunday 2 March 2014

Spatial Order






Pen, ink and gouache on paper.

These sketches are working compositions for a series of paintings I am currently producing. The paintings are ink and acrylic on board, and the boards have been shaped (similar to the outlines of these drawings).

The lines follow invisible grids, isometric geometries within defined spaces. Hard edge axes act like beams of colour, that bleed away into subtle gradients.

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