"Complete Chaos"

This artwork, a collage, (the 26th in my dedicated series based on the fortification designs of Vauban) uses pieces of paper cut at angles from pre-assembled sheets of Canson ‘Mi-Teintes’ 160 gms paper to make sheets of red/black ‘stripes’ which were applied in a random design to a pre-painted and stencilled blue 115 x 75 cm stretched canvas. These applied angles have been deliberately chaotically applied to create an artwork entitled, thus, “Complete Chaos”.

All my recent artworks using painted or applied elements of carefully drawn angles are loosely based on the works of Maréchal Vauban, or Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), who is considered one the of the greatest military engineers of all time. In his life he was responsible for the fortification of over 160 places in France… but his major contribution to warfare was his methods of attack, which revolutionised siege warfare. However, the shapes and angles of his defensive walls surrounding many French towns and seaports have influenced the design of my more recent artworks.