Heaven and Earth Painting

Recently I've been very drawn to using pattern and repetition as a means of evoking, on paper, the feel and (visual) texture of cloth. The use of natural colours is an asset, because they have so much depth and life they add a texture of their own. This piece is the first in a series of "tapestries" using simple repeated units to achieve rich, apparently complex compositions from which the eye never tires of teasing out patterns. I used five mineral pigments mulled with gum arabic: lapis lazuli, azurite, chrysocolla, malachite and terre verte ( all semiprecious save for the latter). I never mix pigments; I may layer them, which preserves their luminosity, but there was no call for this here. Watercolour is not normally used with a reed pen, and I didn't want pigment to accrete on my best pens so I cut a couple of twigs and was constantly re-cutting them as I went. The organic variations in the repeated unit and in the colours is testimony to the patient labour of the hand, and the end result is all the more alive and visually compelling for it.

Painting:Semiprecious pigments on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:29.9 W x 21.3 H x 0 D in

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