Heliotrope Paintings ︎︎︎
This series of paintings, made for a solo exhibition titled ‘Heliotrope’, deals with abstraction within the patterns of written language. The starting point was abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky’s 1912 artists book of surrealist poetry and woodcut prints entitled Sounds. This book is a synthesis of writing and visual art which highlights the connection between abstraction in language and abstraction in painting. I connected particularly with Kandinsky’s use of language relating to colour, and titles for the works were drawn directly from the poems; these serving as descriptive guides for me while working. In responding visually to Kandinsky’s poetry I wanted to address the way in which one medium of art can translate into another, and create evocative, abstract descriptions with colour, shape and pattern.
Read more about the exhibition here
Orange Cloud Radiated Violet (2021)
Ink, acrylic and carbon transfer on paper
42 x 60 cm
Pale Blue Spots Yellow Glare (2021)
Ink, acrylic and carbon transfer on paper
42 x 60 cm
Strangling Redblue Clouds (2021/22)
Ink, acrylic and carbon transfer on paper
42 x 60 cm
Ornamental Patterns of Brownwhite (2022)
Ink, acrylic and carbon transfer on paper
42 x 60 cm
Cooled Off Flash (2021)
Ink and collage
15 x 20 cm
Violets Grow (2022)
Ink and carbon transfer on card
22 x 35 cm
Composition I (2022)
Ink and gouache on card
35 x 20 cm
Composition II (2022)
Ink and gouache on card
45 x 25 cm
Composition III (2022)
Ink and gouache on card
15 x 15 cm
Only My Eyes Saw (2022)
Ink and collage
20 x 16 cm