This painting belongs to my ‘Life Enlarged’ series and again looks at the tiny minutiae of life and objects, what is real but cannot be seen with normal sight. At a microscopic level, I am inspired by the vastness and sublime of the minutiae of life, the beauty of things enlarged under magnification.
In this artwork I over-enlarged the grid-like patterns found in the weave of muslin fabric and re-shaped it into an ambiguous floaty space.
On this already beautiful linen surface I used my mark making quite primitively. In layers and layers, I manipulated the repetitious lines of the cloth to give the image a feeling of being weightless and floating almost like fishing nets drifting in the ebb and flow of the ocean. Something fragile, dainty, immaterial but also a little mysterious. There is a very textural tactile feel as the repeated brush marks across the surface and layers of subtle glazing gives the whole surface a deep delicate ambiance.
I wanted the painting to have a boundless shimmer of light and air, sublime and beautiful.