Paintures

Acrylic paint & Conte Crayon over Armature

The Paintures evolved at a period in my life during which I built three dimensional sculptures out of hundreds of layers of paint [Chromascapes 2007]. With the goal to strip paint from its substrate–the canvas, I was inspired by the expressive nature of paint as a medium, the young children that I was teaching art to at the time, and the creative and make-do aesthetic of Folk and Outsider Art. I also grew up with horses-and know them intimately as animals, among the other pets and farm animals that I grew up with in the country side of Northern Ireland. The Paintures are created from paint skins and scrapings affixed to metal armatures.

Fired Painting Landscapes book. Created using unique, firing processes and materials

Layered Acrylic Paint, Pins on Canvas

H25" x W25" x D2"

One of a series of three- in private collections, HI

Carved Layered Paint 25” x 25” x2'“

Layered, carved Acrylic Paint, Pins on Canvas

Carved Paint, Framed
H5.5" x W5.5" x D5.5"

In 2007 I was simultaneously working with the sculptural and expressive qualities of paint in built paint form sculptures, and sumi-e ink in my book forms. Referencing page layering and the earlier faded ink fore edges of my Volumes series, my ink and paint works invoke the meditative through the act of applying ink and obliterating meaning, or layering, building, and carving with paint.