November 2015
I am now applying layers
of colour to to 2 of the panels and I am going to etch, rust pieces, polish,
plate and possibly apply some parys mountain pigment to the third panel.
October 2015
I have made three reliefs, approximately
670 x 670 mm each. These have been made out of plywood where I have extracted
the rectangles that I found in Ben Nicholson’s image and built them up in
layers of plywood. I was originally going to do only one image, but felt that I
could explore the concept of two forms further by having them has a triptych.
This is accompanied by a series of colour studies. By making the images three
dimensional, I am introducing new spatial problems. I am looking for ways of
enhancing the space through use of colour. This draws upon an idea from my
recent Arts Council of Wales funded project, where I have been looking at the
differences and similarities between aspects of natural forms and colours in
Crete and Ynys Mon.
Two of these relief panels are going to be
painted and the other is a mixture of wooden panels overlaid by mild steel
plate. I am planning to create different surfaces on the different pieces of
steel. Some of which will be polished, some rusted, some etched, in order to
create depth within the image. I am also thinking of applying pigment found in
Parys Mountain into the etched areas of steel and allowing it to rust
naturally. I am presently doing a number of experiments.
Having seen the reliefs purely in wood, I
now feel that I will make a fourth panel that will be made entirely out of the
wood. i have also working on the idea of making some A 2 prints.
Nicholson’s work interests me given his
concern for Mondrian and his initial interest in nature. He made a very pure
utopian type of abstraction that has, in a sense become ‘iconic’. If you think
of abstraction, his work, and to a similar extent, that of Henry Moore, spring
to mind. I am interested in this iconic quality. When looking at the Jackson
Pollock exhibition at Tate Liverpool I also spent time looking at works by Ben
Nicholson and I have become interested in the ways that he had built up forms with
colour.
I have browsed on the Museums
website and have short-listed 3 artists. The first artist is Ben Nicholson.
There are two paintings on the website but only one I can view is so I am
planning to visit Cardiff in the next 2 or 3 weeks. The painting is Two Forms,
where I find his use of abstract form and space very interesting. Mondrian
influenced Ben Nicholson; I have always been interested in how Mondrian’s work
evolved from his early tree paintings to his pure abstract images. I am going
to be experimenting with different processes such as collage, etching,
collograph and rusting steel with found pigment. I am going to be cutting up
collograph blocks, solar or photec plates and aluminium plates using similar
proportions or dimensions to his rectangles in his composition. On the
aluminium plates I am going to experiment by making random patterns with coffee
lift and open bite. With the photec plates I am going to use rock textures or
sections of tree canopies.
I will also cut up piece of steel which I will partly etch and then
apply found pigment and then allow to rust. These will then possibly be welded
together
I am exploring the possibility of working from Trees by Maurice de Vlaminck (1876 -
1958). I have started doing some tree studies at Coed Cadnant of similar
compositions as well as having made a few photo polymer etchings of trees.
I have also looked at the possibility of working from two of Graham
Sunderland’s paintings.
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