Paintings within and without a space.

Purple, Green, & Orange. Oil on canvas.
Situation Specific Installations/Spatial Paintings. 
Half a Dozen of the Other Exhibition,
Manchester School of Art, 2007.

I recently included a photo of one of my large spatial paintings ,Conversation Piece: A Painting Built for Two (Yellow), in one of these blogs post to draw attention to how my work moves from painting into sculpture and back again. The image received a very favorable response and  so today I posting an image of three of my spatial paintings from the exhibition they featured in in 2007.  These particular pieces perhaps go further than 'Yellow' as they explore not only my connection between painting and sculpture, but also installation work. 

Purple, Green & Orange where created for the space that they inhabited, but the space was also created for them. Some of the works are in the space, some of them without it, challenging out concepts of the boundaries of an environment.

​I'll start with Green, because it is probably the simplest of the 3. it was created to exist in the corner of a space, addressing all the planes of that 3D space. 

Purple is a space in it's own right, it is basically a doorway into a cylindrical painting. Once inside you are effectively surrounded and enveloped by it's rich, deep hue. 

Orange is the real joker in the pack. It may look like a shaded orange disc hanging on the wall, and believe me that is not just the photograph, but it is actually a circular hole cut into the wall with a one metre deep, conical canvas mounted behind it. The shading is real as the cone is angled to take its apex above the level of the aperture.