Beautiful detailing
When you first get over the ‘wow’ of seeing this in the flesh for the very first time you then get drawn in to the bewildering array of complexity that these paintings possess. The technique of deploying paint from a rotating platform carries many stresses but the rewards are intoxicating.
As are the details of the paint as you move in closer. Not just where lines and arcs move across each other but in the individual deposits of paint. This continues around the edges of all four canvases so that painting continually moves into the next as you move around it.
In some places the paint looks like glass and this is down to the unique properties of my specially formulated enamel paints. You can see this clearly in one of the photos I have included.
Colours and placement
Almost every major colour group is represented in this bold abstract painting yet there’s never a feeling that one fo them is dominant. The ability to gain balance and breathing space, especially across such a big expanse of canvas, is one learned through much trial and error.
Perhaps even more-so when you consider that I cut the single piece (I started with) into four on the second of three sessions so I juggled all the positioning very carefully for two thirds of the creative process.
I gave every session a great deal of thought before I commenced spinning paint so that i could try to visualize what I would be left with when I completed the painting; not an easy task I assure you!
Tubular Spells is available to view in my art gallery and also in your own home if you live in the UK. If not, don’t worry – send me a few interior shots of your wall and I’ll Photoshop it in for you so you can see what it’s going to look like. Drop me a line today and let me transform that big white wall you keep staring at.