Homestead is an abstract cubist painting of an old hotel that I stayed at many years ago in rural New South Wales. It was very old, somewhat rustic, and with me being a kid, it was an amazing place to explore. It had long halls with tiled floors that echoed as I ran up and down them, exploring. I also remember the distinctive blue-green walls that lined the halls.
My aim with this painting is to capture the same intricacies in the painting that I felt while exploring the grounds of the hotel as a child. Each corridor and courtyard was a new discovery. And so the shapes and movement within the painting is also intended to draw your eyes around the canvas, finding new shapes and images.
I have also captured the rustic slightly run-down feel of the hotel, with colours running deliberately across the canvas. I have used a lot of control to achieve what looks like a perhaps messy or untidy appearance - which is much harder to achieve that one may think.
The painting has a sense of spontaneity, yet it is well balanced and has been built up over many layers with careful planning and execution.
Note the images showing the painting mounted on the wall are for illustration purposes only. The correct measurements are provided below. A handy way of determining just how this sized painting will work in your space is to use blue tack dots or masking tape on your wall to plot out the border of the painting. This method gives you a realistic impression of how the painting will fit on your wall