Oil on wood, ready to hang.
Signed on the front.
This artwork comes with an external frame
Contemporary still life Oil painting of a Red Monstera leaf and a lemon. From a series of works I completed in 2018 - 2019 called Intersect.
INTERSECT 2019
For as long as I can remember I’ve been interested in the relationship between art and design. My work sits somewhere between the two, and it’s not always a place I feel comfortable. I have an ongoing internal tussle about where my art belongs.
Still life is my favourite genre, yet these plants in vases are clearly not painted from life. They are informed by synthetic cubist ideals and early pop art, and are unconcerned with form or perspective. Pictorial flatness is a naturally occurring theme in my work after many years designing logos and icons for single colour output, and the restraints of a long print design career have unlocked a deep appreciation and respect for the pleasure of applying the paint itself.
The works in this series explore both painterly and linear techniques, and are characterised by a central line through the composition that serves as the water line, refraction and intersect between the background, vase and surface. This technique somewhat mimics the imaginary grid structure I would use to set type and images in a traditional page layout.