Diary

After a pause of a few years I have started to revisit the Flatland series. The project evolved through 2017 culminating with a series of black paintings that were exhibited at the Chapelle d'Observance in 2018. The break wasn't for any particular reason other than as ever developing other projects. 

These black paintings were significant for me because it was the first time I used the same paint colour as the support. In other words these paintings consisted of matt black oil paint on polished black plexiglas support. The revealed squares contrasted nicely with the paint and at the same time the artworks remained monochrome and slotted nicely into the long tradition of black square paintings since Malevich in 1915.

The starting point for the new works was the substrate which is only available in certain off the shelf industrail colours. This moved the project into an excersise of mixing oil paints that match as closely as possible the chosen plexiglas. This was not at all easy and after many pretty frustrating days of mixing various different blue paints, and I tell you there are many, I arrived at conbinations that worked. 

Today I applied the paint to three panels and added the loose grid with a banboo needle. Now all I have to do is wait for the paint to dry and then I can hunt down any squares within the grid. Its pretty cold in the studio so that might take some time.