Quay Question (provisional title)(In Progress)
20" x 30" Oil on Board
The first of a series of 8 paintings based on patterns of erosion on rocks at the foot of the cliffs at Rock-a-Nore near Hastings.
These paintings will be the beginning of a new body of work; exploring and developing my earlier coastal theme of objects by the coast breaking down through the action of the elements
In these I am "zooming in" on each object to the very blueprint of its construction and destruction, exploring the minute and inconsequential worlds that hide unnoticed within the much larger and more recognisable forms that we see as rocks, fishing boats or groynes, discovering individual continents, islands, and oceans that make up a patch of faded and chipped paint, the canyons and ravines in a splintered piece of wood and the faint maps of ancient coastlines etched by erosion on the exposed face of a rock.
Notes on painting technique
As well as painting with a brush I often make extensive use of sponges, and rags to apply thin washes of oil paint which are then rubbed away or ground into the surface of the painting. Slowly thicker layers of paint are added, accidental marks are not only tolerated but actively nurtured and finally thin glazes of almost transparent primary colours are layered over each other.
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