I have always liked David Hockney’s Californian swimming pool artworks which include a frozen-in-time splash of water spouting into the air after a diver has disappeared under the surface. It coincided with finding in my scrap-box a small booklet of coloured papers; the cover read, “Paper - Fall Solids / 2” x 3” (5 cm x 7.6 cm) / 100 sheets” and provided me with an idea to use the two blues - 20 sheets of each of pale and medium - and smear them with white and Cobalt acrylics using screwed-up tissue paper as an application tool in order to create ‘accidental marks’ on the small papers before reassembling them in a random sequence, starting from bottom-left, with no visual decision over which piece to pick next… et voila, my ’smaller blue splashes’ with thanks to Hockney!
Approximate image size 18 x 28cm on 24 x 38 dark blue cartridge paper backing suitable for framing under glass with or without passe-partout or beveled mat overlay.
- Subject Matter: Abstract
- Created: February 2023