ROLLING PEN PAINTING
ROLLING PEN PAINTING
Daniel Eatock
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I started to explore paint as a subject not as a
medium. A tube of paint is beautiful, colour is
suspended in a three-dimensional vessel awaiting its exit, so it can be manipulated into another form. Do different colours suggest different forms? What shape is black? What shape is white? How can the forms colour takes be read as truths? So, as we live on a spherical planet and see through spherical eyes we seem to be creating lots of planes that suspend pictures… screens, windows, canvases, posters – if we are displaying colour on these flat planes then let’s celebrate and reveal the flatness and break with the illusion of three dimensions. I think of this like viewing the surface of a pond… water finds its level.
Yet when we look at it we can see beyond the surface, sometimes to the murky depths, we can also see the reflection of the sky above, infinity. Both suspended on the meniscus tension of the water’s surface. This one plane has an infinite depth suspended in a flat skin. My paintings are built with this idea in mind. Not to represent this, but to reveal flatness through depth.
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