Day to day painting I Painting

This is a layered oil painting on 2mm hardboard. It is currently unframed. My work is generally abstract, and draws from a wealth of imagery built up over years of painting. I layer paint, usually waiting for one layer to dry, in order to make bold contrasting over marks. This painting is from my recent series which include more delicate black marks. These marks came from a series of black and white drawings. They suggest machine parts but could also be natural marks from the landscape and have a diagramaphic feel to them. They continue my theme of painting about life and 'Day to Day' interactions in particular. The layers represent the many highs and lows in life, always with colour shining through, like hard found silver linings at difficult times. I want a viewer to be able to add their own story to my pictures, each is a new creation, it never existed before.