Banded Motif Series
Banded Motif
It started with a way of breaking the picture surface up into layers because normally in a landscape you have an horizon so you’ve got one division and two sides. I wanted to break it into more bands so as to move away from the landscape literally, into a situation where different things happen in different bands and at different times. From that point it was just painting using textures and colours with the only restriction being that they’re operating within certain bands. Maybe one of the most successful was “The train”, there’s a feeling of passing, transitory things going by the window. Some in focus, some out of focus.
There’s another one called “Morning” as if there were activity going on particularly in the central band and then there’s a sense of looseness, but over the top of it is a softer mistier area it’s as if you are looking through a window that has the condensation wiped off.
Then onto “The big one”, a large painting 2m x 1.5m, starting to rely heavily on the mark and texture and the overall intensity of the colour and there is a sense of energy coming into it. The bands allow you to paint about more than one thing and more than one time.
