horizon series

 

A series of acrylic paintings on 5×7, 10×12 and 20 x 16 inch canvas boards with the idea of ‘Horizon’.

I’ve called these ‘Horizon’ because they are a bit like a landscape. Obviously they aren’t real landscapes, but they are about colour connections and they are influenced by skies, especially sunsets. And how there are a myriad of colours to be found in what might normally be referenced as ‘blue sky’, ‘green earth’ or ‘blue sea’. Skies are an endless fascination to me as they are rarely the same. 

Horizons are always about the juxtaposition of colours. How they look together and what happens when they meet, and what happens when the canvas is left bare.

Horizons is a theme I keep coming back to.

Horizons 12, 13 and 14 all investigate how a grey made from the signature colour (i.e. orange) plus black and white looks so different when it meets and is laid over the signature colour, as does the black in the bottom section. 

My intent in my painting is for them to resonate with you and to join me in the feeling.

I’m a big fan of Craigie Aitchison, David Hockney, Donald Hamilton Fraser, Howard Hodgkin, Barbara Hepworth and Barbara Rae and hope I am channelling those artists, who for me, connect so well with us.

All the paintings have been photographed in natural light. Colours may look a bit different in real life, but have done my best to visually colour match. Frames shown are for display, they are UNFRAMED unless stated otherwise.