Sun stroke

Acrylic on hand shaped plywood [84 x 54cm]

This painting was made with one continuous stroke, a single brush loaded with the six colour spectrum R O Y G I V was dragged along the surface allowing the colours to mix in its trail.

I am experimenting more and more with these colour limitations, partially as a way of exercising my understanding of colour as a steady series of transitioning hues but also as a way of thinking about light and its interactions with the rods and cones of the eye.

It is simply a coincidence that the cross section of a cone is an ellipse.

©ADG2021

Solid Vision

Posca paint maker on pine [240 x 24cm]

This work came out of the process of making other work, the underlying surface revealed, a solid bar of undulating coloured energy. The detail of rough edges is diminished with distance, appearing hard edged from afar and softer or woven on close inspection.

I was very happy to have had this work exhibited at the National Art School (Sydney) as part of the Dobell Drawing Prize #22. It was a thrill to see it there in the gallery, somewhat out of place amongst all the other drawing.

This significant work continues to feed into what I am thinking and making now. A new body of work is slowly emerging, with a returned focus on painting and surface.

©ADG2021
 

Dobell Drawing Prize #22

 

I am very honored to have been selected as a finalist for this years Dobell Drawing Prize. 

My entry is a large Posca on board drawing (2.4 metre pine plank), I wanted to make something that stands over you, tall and thin like a tear in the surface if reality. I am very excited to see it exhibited among the work of so many other excellent artists.

The exhibition will be installing this week and opening later in the month.

Snow Crash

Acrylic on canvas [91 x 61cm]

This painting, the first of 2021, follows on from work I started making in 2018.

The glowing line on a field of noise has become more complex thanks to the geometric experiments and insights of drawings made last year. Here I am using the same tessellating forms as my recent watercolour work, in which a composition is discovered by projecting lines from the corners of a grid, moving up one side and then reflected down the other. In the execution of this painting I have again attempted to retain something of the scratchiness of a drawn surface and allowed for many minor imperfections and bleeds to occur. 

A balancing of elements in this signal-to-noise ratio.

©ADG2021
 

Deep water

Pen and watercolour on watercolour paper

 

Recentley I have been experimenting further with watercolour. I started with some small ones (A5) before moving to a larger format (A3), intuitively choosing colour and shade, working quickly allowing for areas of bleeding and incidental colour mixing.

I am making these thinking that they could potentially be translated into acrylic on canvas and to better understand the geometries of this system. I am attempting to create some patterned surfaces that will operate as autostereograms (better known as Magic Eye pictures) that produce the illusion of a three-dimensional scene. I have also made some digital examples of this technique and the effect works as described... 

By focusing through the surface of the image an illusion of receding space can be seen, and by narrowing sections of the pattern a gradation of depth can be achieved. This composition almost achieves the desired effect.

©ADG2021

Something between us

Posca on board [81 x 27cm]

This new one is on hand cut ply-wood with a backing frame I constructed. The colours used are a sequence of Red / Green / Blue and a black with two greys. Here I was trying to capture something of a grease smudge on a smartphone screen, a fascinating analogue glitch that makes the typically invisible (glass) visible in a dazzling spectrum of refracted light. Because of the hand-made board I primed around the outside edge to seal it and so I decided to carry the line work off the edge also.

©ADG2020

 

 

Cavern

 

Vector illustration, [1,334 x 750 pixels (326 ppi)]

These new compositions generated a desire to make another wallpaper image for iPhone. The great thing about this geometry is it is totally adaptable to any square format. Feel free to use this on your phone, but be sure to alter it to the right specifications for you screen (scale it within the frame [set to still]) and enjoy this digital cavern as a moody site for all your floating app icons.

©ADG2020