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The Unintentional Outcome of the Movement of Paint
My body of work combines abstract art with the technique of poured paintings to investigate the unintentional outcome of the movement of paint. I prefer to explore the techniques and methods of how a painting is created. The material I tend to use in my art practice consists of a minimum of five watered-down acrylic paints combined with a pouring medium for it to flow with ease on canvases. Well-known artists that have influenced my art practice are Jackson Pollock, Barbara Nicholls and Mali Morris in which they all perform several abstract pieces with a movement technique for an unknown outcome. Within my practice, it concludes a wide range of methods of pouring, mixing, splashing, blending, blowing, changing and a dozen more processes that construct my creative interests into a masterpiece. Most recently, I have decided to take upon my personal interest within the theme of abstraction, the movement of paint. For a better understanding of this point, it is more so the process of the painting in motion, how does it get to A to B using different equipment, experiments etc. I have always loved my outcomes, but it is how it was created that amuses me the most. The flow of paint, how it runs with the colours at hand upon the plain white canvas. Most of my techniques begin at a starting point where I come into play for the paint, a little push will start the flow of liquid engaging with its other companions on its journey to create an abstract art piece that will show the outcome of its life in front of your eyes. I am hoping to get this point across in upcoming art exhibitions and art shows to a bigger audience to show I can extend my practice further in much greater detail.
Red, Orange, Black and White - 2023
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During some pieces of Nicholls' work, she uses electric fans that would be placed around the paper area where she would adjust the thermostat on them. This causes a change to the work's events and has formed a mathematical routine towards her process. This means that some of her outcomes are similar but not the same as the thermostat can be altered between warm and cold, giving different variations towards the similar techniques Nicholls has been using to form her watercolour abstract paintings. Magnetic Inclination, 2014 (Holman p.9) and the Oscillation Ripple Mark, 2014 (Holman p.10) are watercolour paintings on paper that have similarities throughout as they almost give off the illusion of x-ray looking images due to the pale, delicate layering of colours that infused with one another. The colours that are used are mainly reds and blues, which compliment each other quite well due to the delicacy of the watercolour paints. By looking at the pieces, they have been altered by creating layers, drying them, and then continuously adding more in which the result is a large-scale pool of red, blues, purples tones that can be seen throughout the layers that have been applied. When looking in depth at these layered watercolour paintings, it is to be considered that the pieces have been through an important role during the whole process to get to this point and it shows its complex precision in layers, drying, absorbing the paints with water is all from objects that have been applied, letting the process create the movement of these paintings. Overall, Barbara Nicholls’ work concludes the fact that her work is mostly focused on the process of her work rather than the final outcomes that occur from the techniques and materials that have been used to create that form of art within the paper. It shows that Nicholl’s paintings do in fact move unintentionally depending on the balance of water, watercolour and the paper itself due to absorbing the materials with one another.