Apologies for the dull pictures. I need a better camera.Recently I have been obsessing over the realisation that we have created our cities out of tones and texture. Take for example the pavement. It’s not a long flat grey block (as we might be tempted to illustrate it) full of different tones texture and intricacies. Each paving slab is different to the next and within each slab is a multitude of patterns texture and tones. I suppose it’s organised chaos.
It is this amount of overlooked detail, within the mundane blocks that we have built our world with, which has been preoccupying me. It is so frequently unobserved but it would be sorely missed if the world was made of pure block colours .i.e. adobe illustrator drawings- maybe that’s why I’m drawn to Illustrator drawings which use gradients…
I love scratches in paintwork that show the old paint underneath. I love the grubby marks that show a history of human contact, I love the different tones within a shadow, the unobserved layer of dust, the bubbles in paint from strong sunlight, I could go on….
I would like the work on a range of paintings based on this current obsession; I suppose they would really be colour experiments.
These would lead naturally onto a colour theme for a collection, I would like to experiment with creating the textures and depths of colour in a 2D form, maybe layering fabrics, linking fabrics together, panelling, the blocks of tones.. Ooh, I’m getting inspired…!
It is this amount of overlooked detail, within the mundane blocks that we have built our world with, which has been preoccupying me. It is so frequently unobserved but it would be sorely missed if the world was made of pure block colours .i.e. adobe illustrator drawings- maybe that’s why I’m drawn to Illustrator drawings which use gradients…
I love scratches in paintwork that show the old paint underneath. I love the grubby marks that show a history of human contact, I love the different tones within a shadow, the unobserved layer of dust, the bubbles in paint from strong sunlight, I could go on….
I would like the work on a range of paintings based on this current obsession; I suppose they would really be colour experiments.
These would lead naturally onto a colour theme for a collection, I would like to experiment with creating the textures and depths of colour in a 2D form, maybe layering fabrics, linking fabrics together, panelling, the blocks of tones.. Ooh, I’m getting inspired…!
