Continuation of Painted 30 x 30cm Painted Plywood, and also Taped Plywood Boards.

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My aim with the above painted piece, was to introduce the primary colour of RED alongside the prior colours I have been using. The prior plywood boards didn't include this colour so I thought it would be a step of development for the series of boards and would allow for some variation between the collection. Although my decision to progress the colour choices, the design principles I was used, were kept the same. This absence of a pre-planned design and working purely in the moment, I find helps towards the abstract quality of the pieces as I am not working from any imagery or visual reference. Just my in the moment decisions and my subconscious.

As my practice has been moving away from the technique and material of tape, I decided to revisit it on a smaller scale using the other 30 x 30cm boards I had pre-primed. I set out with the idea to create two different design styles and with varying colours to provide a contrast.

The first (pictured below) was a reference to a style of wood flooring which shows an alternating placement of boards every other line, expressing a staggered look and sense of movement. By carefully choosing a choice of coloured tapes', I wanted to increase the effectiveness of this visual design by carefully choosing the placement of each piece of tape, and by distancing the black, silver, yellow and blue tape in a way that looked balanced. This new approach to applying tape solely on a diagonal allowed me to explore a new visual design/composition which I feel I have only previously used partly in other pieces.

After this I wanted to try an use as many of the coloured rolls of tape I had to hand, to produce a piece that communicated and showed all the tapes' I had used in all my previous taped pieces, as well as the use of horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines. This contrast of colour and alternating direction of line, allowed me to create a composition that draws your eyes towards the centre of the board initially, then directs your focus outwards in the various directions included. (Pictured Below)

With all of my pieces, whether it be masking tape paintings or taped boards, I like to try and make each composition stand out as an individual piece, but with the ability to also be included as a group or series of work.

Pictured above is the method that I use when in the studio to try and determine how each piece may be curated alongside other pieces of my studio practice. As this shows, I have placed both the 2 completed taped boards, alongside 4 of my previous painted pieces on the floor, as a way of seeing if they work well together. This process of curating them within my studio space, I feel helps me envision how they may look within a white cube gallery context and in relation to one another.

I do this with most of my work and I feel this is a key factor in how all my studio practice visually transitions and relates to one another even though the ideas' behind them may not necessarily be the same.

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