Large scale abstract paintings

Large scale abstract paintings

Through large scale paintings, I am able to heighten the experience of colours, augment the dynamics of layers and planes of the painting surface so that they are experienced, and enhance the vibrance, brilliance and clarity of colour.

My large scale works hint at something more immersive and enveloping, captivating the viewer through their relationship with the impact of not just the way they experience the light through the colours, but in their emotional and sometimes physical response to the radiant energy emitted which is uplifting and energising.

 

 

 

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New Giclée Prints for sale

I’m very excited to have picked up these high quality giclee prints from the printer of a few of my large scale paintings this afternoon!

These have been professionally printed for me using 11-colour Ultrachrome HDR inks on OLMEC bright white smooth paper to achieve the greatest reproduction.

They are available in A1 & A3 and there are 3 different prints available (and other sizes to order on request).

I’ll have added these to the website shop in time for #smallbusinesssaturday, 5th December and they are available for delivery or collection from my studio at Krowji.

 

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    Scaling up and expanding

    Sometimes working on multiple small paintings at once leads to results that require a little expansion - to further explore something to see how it might work if the areas and proportions changed.

    I've always enjoyed large scale paintings, my work generally lends itself to a more ambitious scale rather than being confined into smaller dimensions, but smaller works do help to create a volume of ideas and exploration.

    This is how a few of my recent big canvases started out. I scaled this smaller piece up to a really big painting as I could see the capacity it had that would lend itself to a bigger expanse.

    The detail of the ‘balance’ (the linking of elements), the semi-opaque white as a leading element to this piece, are favourite points for me.

    I had to scale the piece from rectangular portrait dimensions to square and devise how the colours would work on a white primed canvas when the background wasn’t a neutral base of ply.

    With painting onto the white primer there’s a need to cover the whole surface, unlike with the ply, which means all of the painted shapes become more as one, rather than benefiting from the natural way the ply becomes visually, and tangibly another plane.

    With the ply it’s more obvious that the surface is separate and the paint sits on top of it. With a canvas this is less so the case. And then there’s an element of illusion in the two dimensional effect as well where just by adding a painted colour, it changes the planes.

     

    Yellow and white abstract.

    This painting is another large scale translation onto square canvas from one of the smaller studies on ply that I did.

    The asymmetric composition and diagonal lines with linked elements are where I feel the flow with this, as well as the introduction on this larger piece of the red triangle ? contrasting with the subtle green and white, yet linking across to the fluorescent yellow.

    As with the other large painting that evolved this way, there were changed and adaptations I made to transfer to a white background (primes canvas) and the larger, square format.

    Now having lived with it for some while, and having progressed other pieces I’m eager to add something, another element, that was never a part of the plan when I started.

    So you could say that this piece has taken almost 2 years to do!

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