edgescape : klinken

this painting is currently being exhibited along with some other works in the exhibition entitled vivid at the Reunion Gallery..edgescape:klinken, mixed media on panel, 95cm x 95cm framed.29 August 2006edgescape:klinken was informed by the experience of digging an area of ground - striations of compost, discarded ash, coal and clinker, fragments of carpet, unidentified detritus... I also unearthed a wealth of pseudo-archaeological matter including broken toys, metal lighters, pottery and old tins, glass bottles, unworthy of a museum but the history contained within created a humble collection of artefacts...i titled this painting klinken after mixing some clinker in the paint to achieve a more random texture than could be achieved with sand or chalk...klinken, detail.this second image shows some of the thin layers of paint... at the time i felt the colours were too sombre, but it has an earthy, autumnal quality, of mist, compost, wood fires and smoke, the centre is overlaid with a soft smokey haze, but on photographing the whole painting my camera's settings gave it more contrast and prominence... this close-up detail serves to show the subtle merging of layers and is more truthful in colour...here are some photographs i took of the painting at different stages; the dates relate to the day picture was taken...28 july 200519 october 200516 december 200512 march 200609 june 2006view more abstract landscape paintings in this series...