Colour and the Substance of Shape

My work at the moment has been influenced by my surroundings. One artist described a recent painting as a fractured distorted version of reality where everything seemed to be collapsing on itself.




















I think that's quite an accurate interpretation.

I use ideas from cubism, pop art, and German expressionism. The blues and turquoises are very Hockney-esque I think, but instead of representing water they are supposed to represent the sky blotted out by window frames and becoming caged off or fragmented. Earlier versions of this met with the criticsm that the window motif was too obvious: so I instead concentrated on the light that would pour through and get scattered on the floors, walls and objects.

Now I am taking similar arrangements of shapes and colours and applying them to a different aspect ration, a longer thinner canvas which is more like a decorative panel...