Gallery > The Line is the Canon

Game boards are square, and in 2015, for the second time in my long practice, I became impatient with the eternal rectangle. I began experimenting with shapes, cut from plywood and intruded with meandering jigsaw 'lines'.

Here's the thing about the cutouts. Everything the jigsaw does is like a line that can't ever be erased. It's the given, the canon. The paint has to answer to it.

A shape in my head becomes a sketch, becomes a plywood cutout, becomes a photograph, becomes a more precise sketch, printed out, for plotting the painting - which sometimes takes a few days before I pounce. Gazing at the beautiful shape. The paint - its colours, how it is applied, how its expression responds to the shape, is the project.

Picaresque

Counterpoint

Mis en Scene

Presence

Trespassing

Cosmo