Original artwork description:

This work is part of a 12 month-long painting project (20 January 2020 - 20th January 2021) in which I set out produce a new body of work without having any preconceived ideas of what the work would eventually look like. The idea being that by getting into the studio and just putting brush to primed surfaces, new forms, themes and ideas would reveal themselves. And I've not been disappointed with the results. I have also found this to be a good time for experimenting with different painterly techniques. As such you'll notice that some of the works in this series look very different from one another.

With this piece I started be making a few marks in paint, and thought that I'd see what might emerge. What did emerge was a roughly asymmetrical robotic form. To me it looked as though it might have been put together from random bits of scrap metal and junk.

Almost all of the paintings in this series are painted directly to the painting's surface with brush and oil paint, rather than being pencilled in beforehand. I really like the immediacy of this approach. You can often end up with a piece that has a vibrancy that you might not have got if you were being more considered and calculated.

These oil paintings are mostly painted on small, wall mountable, plywood or chipboard plaques (recycled form pieces of Victoria and Albert Museum packing crates), or on old book covers and recycled pieces of primed mount board (recycled from the V&A museum's Paper Conservation Department and from their Picture Framing Dept.).

This one is painted on primed plywood, with a small hole in the back so that it can be hung, unframed, directly onto a wall. There's no reason that it cannot be framed, if that is to your taste, but it is not dispatched in a frame.

Materials used:

oil paint on primed plywood

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