Abstract

29 June 2018

And now a genuine abstract.  What can I say about this one?  I separated the paper out into sections using masking tape.  It made the painting look like an empty room in one-point perspective.  There’s a back wall and two side walls, a floor and a ceiling.  The floor has some grass-like lines scraped on using the wrong end of the paintbrush.  The side walls have some alien-like plants made from blue paint on yellow and yellow paint on blue.  Note how the colours on the floor creep into the back and side walls, how the back wall and ceiling link up and the blue that the ceiling and right wall have in common.  These commonalities bring it all together for me, reinforcing the one-point perspective empty room viewpoint.

I delighted to sell this one to a fellow actuary, who says “The kids love it too, they’d never seen anything like it so it’s a real talking point for them.”  It felt so good to hear that!