Lemon Slice Painting

This work emerged from observations of street gratings in York where I previously lived. The subsequent drawings and paintings and card reliefs/assemblages explore the relationship between the relative neutrality of the metal grid and the chaos of the contained rubbish. My initial interest was thus purely formal; I was intrigued by the possibilities in the contrast between the two types of stripes. The contained debris also initially provided an opportunity to explore a fundamental compositional form (that of laminations/ layers/sandwich) ; a compositional form that is the basis of many landscape paintings. In developing these micro urban landscapes they suggested a more diagrammatic register and the more graphic treatment reminiscent of that used in geological maps (a long held attraction). For an indication of its framed appearance please look at other examples in the series.