Ideas to Form VII - Let the final piece begin

Unwrapping the 
1000 x 1000mm perspex

Faced with a meter square piece of clear pristine perspex I needed to place the first mark.... bit nerve wracking but getting into the zone, music filling the studio I went for it! It was important the paint flowed freely and reflected the energy I let loose. It has been interesting building the colour working backwards as what the viewer will see will be the image from the other side of the perspex. 

I soon realised that my research and practicing were a great investment of time as I knew which colours I wanted to layer next to each other to achieve the impact I was after. What was most satisfying was my Jackson Pollock splattering - I have to own up to hitting the computer in the room and some of the walls needed a wipe down!

I wanted to make sure there was plenty of interesting areas across the image so I made marks wth the end of my paintbrush that could then be over painted with a contrasting colour. Spray paint has added a further dimension allowing me to add depth to the colour and allowing me to block light (achieved specifically with the silver spray paint). 

I loved the sessions working on this piece, fun and liberating.. thats what I adore about abstract - your instinct and mind take over and things just happen. Almost finished but you have only viewed the painting from the painted side so far.......

'Movement' - Exhibition at Centrespace, Bristol, UK.

 MOVEMENT

Title of show: Movement
Dates of show: 18th-22nd March 2016

Opening times: Sat 19th 11-8pm, Sun 20th 12-5pm, Mon 21-Tues 22nd 12-6pm

Private view date & time: Friday18th 5-9pm 

Artists exhibiting: Sally Coulden, Jiang Dai, Robyn Frances, Jonathan Hooper, Sofia Mesa Giner, Seema Schrenk, Jane Speedy, Kim Sullivan, Jo Williams. 

Description of show/press release:

'Movement' is an exhibition by the Post-Diverts Student Art Collective. We are a collaborative group of nine fine artists at Bristol School of Art that share diverse histories, cultures and senses of humour. 

'Movement' implies motion through space, the passing of time, as well as socio-political and cultural changes. The multi-media work emerged out of a shared interest in the possibilities of movement.

Ideas to Form VI - 'to be, or not to be. 'Experimentation' - painting on perspex

Red acrylic, green spray paint behind

The decision to paint on perspex has come from wanting to experiment with paint effects on different surfaces. The objective for me is playing with colour and light. By using the transparency of perspex I can play with layering the colours and also vary thickness of paint which allows light to permeate the colours in different intensities giving an amazingly spontaneous, interesting and sometimes quirky effect.







Its been huge fun experimenting and fundimentally playing with mark making. Varying sized brushes with different thickness of paint. Sgraffitto with the end of my brush, adding acyilic medium to thin the paint so I can do drips and dob paint on. Flicking white spirit onto the paint disperses the it leaving room to overpaint in a different colour making the imagery more dynamic. 

 

Im loving the spray paint and its effect on wet acrylic - crackling the surfaces  - the technique of effectively painting backwards on a surface is fab, the painted side of the perspex in theory is the back of the artwork if its to be hung on the wall - alternatively what I find interesting is being able to see the work from both sides, they are both standalone art works.


This work forms the basis of my research for the upcoming 'Movement' exhibition at Centrespace Gallery in Bristol. 
Time is running short so time to get on with the show piece!!!