patternsthatconnect

I made this painting with a particular person in mind…

“She’ll Hate It”, May 2012, Acrylic on canvas, diptych, 2′ x 4′

…I don’t know why I did, because most likely, when she sees it, she will hate it!

When I see paintings I did long ago (usually a chance meeting) sometimes I dislike what I see, other times I get a pleasant surprise. I saw a few during the last few days, and quite enjoyed them, particularly these two (snapped on my mobile phone).

The first one is from 1987, called Party Piece, containing large collage elements and made mostly with oil paint on paper.

The next, from 2005, Twin Studies 1, is oil on canvas, a diptych, the two canvases joined together forming a painting 3′ tall and 6′ wide.

It never occurred to me at the time, although it was a commission, that the horizontal bands are appropriate for its sleepy setting.

New drawing

High Light 2, May 2012, Highlighter pen on folded paper, 6″x6″

Was it just me that imagined a nude rowing a boat (new drawing, nude rowing)?

Thank you Zorgor for encouraging me to think about how many combinations and permutations there might be, taking this four-quadrant starting point…

…and roatating each quadrant.

Part one is a slideshow of the permutations using only clockwise rotation of each quadrant. The top left quadrant remains stationary and the others rotate, there are 64 variations. ( I noticed that I have missed four of them out of the slideshow …. when I get a minute, I will edit it.)

Part two would be the 64 permutations where the top right quadrant remains constant and the others rotate, etc etc.

I am working on parts two, three and four, giving 256 positions in all and I am wondering about adding sound.

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The drawing is oil pastel on paper, each quadrant being only 3″ x 3″, and using a flatbed scanner on which to arrange them.

I have posted before about the drawing method I have been using in my recent work.

Here’s a short video demonstration.

The music playing faintly in the background is Open by Joshua Sellers from his album Amniosis (used with permission).

It is very difficult to actually see paintings at a private view, especially when it’s a really good one and totally packed, like last week at the Midland Open Exhibition opening night at the Tarpey Gallery, so I went along today and had another look at the work, including my own painting Wakefield Bridge, above the stairs, occupying a space of its own, which I think it needs.

It must be a challenge getting all the work together for a show like this, working out what to put where, attempting to show each piece to its best advantage whilst at the same time making the whole exhibition work in the space. The part to whole relationships are a bit like those in a painting.

Re-constructed

Red Square, acrylic on canvas, 80 cm x 80 cm, composite of four stretchers, by Andy Parkinson

Rearranging the square

Zigzag, acrylic on canvas, 4 stretchers combined,115x130cm

More edge in the centre ( see previous blog).