Completed Painting: 'Untitled 10 (Constructed City)'

 

'Untitled 10 (Constructed City)', Acrylics & French Polish on Panel, 
300 mm x 300 mm, 2020

Here's the second of the small study-paintings, referred to in my previous post.  As I mentioned there, the numbering of these most recent 'Constructed City' paintings is a little out of kilter.  However, it's enough to know that 'Untitled 8, 9 & 10' were all produced pretty much concurrently - with '9' and '10' being initially envisaged as experimental studies - before becoming fully realised little paintings (and ultimately - Christmas presents), in their own right.

There's not much else to relate, really.  You can get the most coherent sense of development of the shared imagery, by back-tracking through my two previous posts, and viewing them in the order: '9', '10', '8'.  That way, you can see how the progressive injection of heightened colour and layered complexity operated upon a simple, largely monochrome prototype.

One last point of possible interest, is that the diagonally inclined geometric motif at the heart of all three of these paintings, was itself recycled, in enlarged form, from the earlier 'Untitled 5' & '6'.  Its translation across multiple platforms (photograph - digital manipulation - painting), and subsequent use, and re-use, are particularly characteristic of my working methods, in recent years.  My fascination with such processes continues unabated, and I suspect they will prevail in my work - for the foreseeable future, at least.