Paint Series
A few years ago I made the “Sea Surfaces” series in which I recorded the texture and colour of the undersides of two old boats while they were hauled out in the shipyard. This new group of images grew from another accidental surface.
At the end of each days painting I scrape the palette clean using an old panel or any handy surface to take the old paint. The paint can be clean and unmixed or muddy stuff left from the days work. Occasionally I push it around because oil paint is lovely to play with. It loosens the knots in my head.
Whereas the panel as a whole is an unstructured mess – I found some of the accidental combinations and ambiguities of the resulting surface were minutely fascinating. So I have photographed the paint under double polarized light with high resolution equipment in order to hold the richness of paint and then enlarged the image ten fold to invite the eye deeper into the paint.
