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Pushing An Elephant Up The Stairs
- mix media on mdf board
- 140cm x 100cm
- unframed
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£700.00
- This is a mix media abstract painting; it is taken from a series of three artworks. The complete series includes ‘Dig’ and ‘Figure 2’. This painting was the final painting in the series and I wanted to create a painting that was a development away more deliberate and geometric lines from the previous two paintings. This painting was created by a ‘controlled accident’, laying the board flat in the studio, similar to the manner in which Jackson Pollock would paint, and pouring water onto the boards and as it dried I worked into it with ink and spray paint. This gave me a more organic and free flowing image to would with. I then drew into the image with very delicate chalk and charcoal marks to highly certain aspects and unlike the other two paintings. I worked using a brush to erase certain elements and begin to shape a very dramatic image of a storm. Like the previous two painting in the series I have remained true to the experimental and abstract nature of the work by avoiding using any brush work where possible within the paintings using a wide range of abstract expressionistic mark making techniques with a variety of materials such as pen, ink, chalk, charcoal and even spray paint. All three paintings have all been produced by limiting my chosen materials to three base colours in black, white and grey in order to explore the dialogue been tonal and textural qualities of the different materials. I feel this has served to create an intimate and dramatic surface tension within the painting. The title of this work is partly inspired by a song lyric taken from ‘Great Beyond’ by 'REM'.
