Feels a bit like cheating but...
I've jumped on a few steps. A lot of what I do generally involves looking at light and shadows. Something I was reminded of about recording shadows made me look back through a sketch book from 2021 when I was looking at the effect of light on the water - both at a local park/pond and at the swimming pool/sea. I found these papers tucked into the pages with a note saying 'swimming grounds in oil - next do cut outs'. Here are the papers
Interesting that I think I was playing with colour mixing oil paints at the time. As I didn't ever get round to do the cut outs (whatever that was) I decided to use the papers for collage.
I have researched Sean Scully and so decided to cut the papers into rectangles/squares. Later that day I went for a swim and realised the colours are shapes are very similar to the tiles at the leisure centre on the walls of the pool. Here's my research:
Sean Scully
Sean Scully 2019 solo show titled ‘Sea Star’ at National Gallery, London explored colour, nature, light and line. It featuredSean Ccully’s landscapes which he calles ‘landlines’ and JMW Turner’s, The Evening Star, 1830. There are similarities in the way both artists focus on the horizon and both artists layer paint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGA-aMn5XbM
e.g. Arles-Abend-Vincent 2, 2015
"Arles-Abend-Vincent 2" (2015) is a triptych painting by Sean Scully that is a homage to Vincent van Gogh's time in Arles. It's part of Scully's broader body of work exploring themes of light, landscape, and the relationship between abstract and figurative art.
And here is my pile of papers cut ready for me to start collaging! Each square of paper is 7.5cm x 7.5cm.
These are great …. You can simultaneously see the geometric, ordered grid and at the same time see the light dancing and bouncing around as if under the surface of a pool. Puts me in mind of David Hockneys series of pool painting and prints.
Great work