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This was a commission for the dining area of the house. The clients, a couple, wanted bright red and orange colours, and something more abstract than representational. To take colour as a starting point was a new idea for me. As was the proposition of making paintings for a specific room, which also fascinated me. It was right next to the kitchen, so an important part of their daily life. I was excited by the scope for dialogue between inner and outer: colour as an internal, vivid, body-related sensation, and also as a presence, in a room, with the link of the daylight and views of the world outside. There was a canal just outside, and I wanted to relate the paintings to the water's directional body, and to the oblong glass dining table in the room. The next layer was the dialogue between
the two paintings themselves. The clients had a clear idea of
the order of size they wanted. I chose a simple proportional relationship
to link them: 60cm by 80cm and 60cm by 90cm. Three to four, and
two to three. These ratios of rectangles have been explored in
architecture over the centuries. Around this time my interest
in number and proportion had been fired up by some lectures on
sacred geometry by Malcolm Stewart. The paintings unfolded as
an investigation of what was inherent in the 'abstract' geometry
of those chosen dimensions, while working with my feel for 'landscape'
which would still be present for me in a brushstroke.
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Two
paintings for a London house Click list below to view The
two paintings
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