What does falling feel like – can I create a painting that gives you the sensation of falling. Does falling start to feel like rising? Does colour change the feeling? This was the thinking behind this series of paintings.
I started with a block, oblong, like a brick. In the series they are placed in roughly the same position on the canvas and at about the same size but at slightly different angles and with the paint moved differently around each one.
The first in this series of ‘Falling’ I was also playing with grey on orange and how the grey changed to a lilac hue when skimmed over orange – something that I noticed in Horizon 13. This is the most worked of the series. I continued to use the same structure, oblong mid right at an angle, but now using a single colour palette – each different colour bringing a different mood and urgency.
All the series of acrylic paintings are at first painted in a single session to bring the energy, and then refined further after the paint has dried.
A series of acrylic paintings on 20 x 16 inch canvas board on the theme of falling.