817 (Framed)

My primary source of inspiration for this painting was the urban environment, and the random assortment of marks, textures, colours, text and pattern that can be found in man-made surfaces. This image is actually inspired by the side of a skip, which just shows that artists can find inspiration everywhere!

My process for this was that from this source material, I built up my painting in layers, making fresh decisions as I went about how to proceed. I intuitively build up my marks and colours in a way that creates something new, not just copying what I saw, and makes a composition and a whole that is a unique image. The process is such that the painting only emerges as I paint it, and the final piece is something impossible to envisage at the beginning.

Dimensions: Width - 64.5 Height -  43.7  Depth - 3.2 cm (framed) / 60 x 39 x 0.4 cm (unframed)

Framed and ready to hang

Materials: Acrylic paint and texture medium on MDF board