This series consists of diptychs of overlapping landscape images. These multimedia paintings all focus on water, its movement, its translucency and its reflection. And with the water, the rocks that contain it.
Each diptych panel repeats half of the image of its partner panel. This repetition alludes to how we see, how our vision marries the view from each eye to create a dimensional image. As static paintings the repetition in the two paintings creates a visual dialogue. There is both similarity and difference to analyze. The repetition introduces a discordant note, the landscape image presented is interrupted and not seamless. There is an act of reflection demanded.
The paintings speak to the perception of ‘ the frame’, what becomes the edge of a picture? Here the edge of one painting becomes the centre of the adjoining painting. The viewer is presented with two individual paintings that then become one piece of art. They speak to how we look and interpret the landscape around us.
I create the image through paint brush strokes and paper collage application. I make the paper for collaging though the use of acid free tissue paper that I paint by rolling, printing and stamping colour and line. This paper widens my repertoire of mark making and texture. I build up the image by ripping and applying fragments of paper. I work both paintings in the diptych concurrently. I work back and forth between painting and collage application.
The collage provides richness for closer inspection. Using collage allows me to build up shapes and create the image through a focus on more abstract components. It wires another way of seeing.