Kaleidoscope series influenced by Carpenter and Kandinsky

 >> work in progress

 >> Final

 >>close up 1

  >>close up 2

  >>close up 3 

  >>close up 4

Carpenters process is an unconscious development and there are things he doesn't even realize until the end, and some others that end up unexpectedly dominating the image. This is very similar to the process I used in this series, the colours I used called to me in a way and told me where they wanted to go. It was not hard to finish the Final, and I also knew exactly when to stop with the abstract shapes without really knowing how or why. It just seemed right to me. Finished.

  >>close up 5

  >>close up 6

  >>close up 7

  >> close up 8

  >>Final again

The emotions I intended the viewer to see were confidence, relief, anger, curiosity, suspicion, vulnerability, fear, mistrust, pride and lust. Unfortunately some images were lost (in a computer crash I had at home recently) and 3 other paintings that go with this series are not up on this blog, they are hung in my studio space. They involve the use of the eye from my female characters and lots of bold and bright colours in different abstract forms. They are all the same size as Curious Anger below.

 >>Curious Anger

  >> Don't Panic! 

I like how Carpenter explains the complex nature of creating art, making a great painting, knowing what areas to fill and what to leave blank on a canvas. "To go beyond mistakes. A realm where nothing functions and suddenly it starts to function." He also agrees that it is often hard to put into words what the meaning and nature of the work is. 

This series is mainly about the Kaleidoscope of emotions that one can go through in a single moment. As you can see I have taken inspiration from Carpenter by using fashion-like poses in the Final, and in Don't Panic! which is one of my favorites you can see I have tried to infuse a monochromatic background with small aspects of the females in the Final and the Rebellion series. Kandinsky obviously plays a role in the abstract shapes that take place in the Final, I didn't want to use circular shapes as I felt the abrupt sharpness of the squares and triangles gave the emotions more power and a sense of fleeting time. The block shapes also reminded me of slides on a film-depicting a moment in time- the angled lines also represented to me how a scene or an emotion can change, can turn a corner if you will, and go down another path all too soon.