Gallery 2 – Quantization

Quantization paintings
Rather an esoteric title for a simple idea, but I couldn’t find another suitable word of explaining the idea. The principal of this painting exploration is the idea of cells of images (colour or patterns) that are created by larger influences such as waves in water (intersecting sinusoidal motions, though not all waves are sinusoidal), to create a larger, different picture. This idea arose from the observation of water, something which is unavoidable in Cornwall, and to a lesser extent the meandering movement of clouds across the sky. This movement creates individually unique cells each with their own characteristics, colours and dimensions. Much like a colonial organism, each cell, or collection of cells, has its own property and function, but together create something entirely different. Sometimes we focus too much on the detail and lose or cannot see the bigger picture.

All aspects of existence, including life, is created from the aggregation of smaller components, whether atoms and molecules; stars and planets, or perceptions, knowledge and understanding. Observing patterns in nature you will find the repetition of unique cells at all levels, whether leaves on a tree, houses in a town, or fields across the landscape.

Technique
These paintings begin with me drawing wave patterns, as continuous lines that intersect in an arrangement that is either repetitive or sporadic. I then adjust and modify these patterns to compose and execute the painting. Each cell is treated as an individual painting which when combined create a different macro painting. Some of the paintings have a cubist origin, but rather than providing an expression of the same object in different planes, it is a representation of changes to the components of a larger, such as dimension, time, environment or form picture that can and do occur.