SUBliminal
Liminal - adjective, defined as occupying a position at, or on both sides of a boundary or threshold; relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process
Seeking Naples Yellow: From the beginning my work has involved an investigation of colour and it’s power to affect and direct perception. This work is also about finding a resonance, a tuning in the varied tones between Naples Yellow and Cerulean Blue. You can’t pin Naples Yellow down. It’s a range of colours. Similarly with Blue, it also exists on a continuum, it’s not greenish, it’s not purplish. As a result I make my own colours from pigments. The pictures are minimal, transitional and yet something seems to leak out.
In these square pictures, surface is defined and then questioned through a strategy of repeated horizontal, parallel lines; space is organised by simple geometry- one of division by half, then half again, and so on; colour exists in between, on a continuum, or on both sides of a boundary.
As in previous work opposites are a significant part of the process: tight - loose, colour - no colour, soft - hard, rough - smooth, transparent - opaque, advancing - receding, present - absent, repeating - inventing. The process is one of definition, erasure, re-statement.