Some recent images of the first in the Verticality Series, initially posted here as the original white fired-fired clay form and now as its alter ego, painted using acrylics - Phthalo Turquoise, Raw Umber, Pyrrole Orange - over an initial Prussian Blue acrylic ink wash. A sculpted canvas.
Some images of the two most recently completed Möbius forms, shown at a recent studio exhibition and a subsequent website photo shoot.
They constitute the beginning of my exploration of the Vertical, having previously been more inclined to indulge my affinity with the horizontal sculptural gesture, which has in the past come more naturally to me, having grown up on the Belgian coast: wide horizons the backdrop of a quietening flat landscape.
This "Towards the Heavens" Series represents an open road to exploring Verticality, as my Instagram posts of 10 and 16 March 2021 illustrate:
For me, the vertical is about a sense of elevation. Building up the clay in an upward gesture brings me that sense of elevation, from the Earthly to the Universal.and
... a quote from David Anfam (Clyfford Still Museum) which I came across during my search into verticality and - consequently - horizontality and (subsequently) universality: "Notions of vertical and horizontal are deeply embedded in our DNA ... and we naturally associate the vertical with life itself. The horizontal equates with the horizon and thus a dissolution of our verticality into an inchoate or entropic space." (personally not convinced about the 'inchoate / entropic' connection).
So, let's see where this Series takes me ...
Towards the Heavens 1
48 x 15 x 14 cm
