Light 2.1

acrylic on canvas 8" x 10" x 5 2013

Light 2.1 consists of five individual canvases intended to be viewed together as one piece. Its origins are in Geometric Abstraction with further influences from the field of Op Art. The creative process began with arrangements of coloured card and evolved from that into painting. Variations in saturation and tone provide some depth cues for the viewer while the symmetrical composition of shapes, in turn, has a flattening effect. A slight optical disturbance and sense of movement has been created.

A language of simple, bold forms is used to explore the physical nature of the piece and the process by which it is derived. Here the application of pigment to a surface is the means by which coloured light is reflected and detected in our vision. The rectangular nature of the work resonates with the structure of the space in which it hangs. Does it then, resemble both the built and the natural world and is the spatial relationship with its surroundings as important as the work in its own right?

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