Illusion # 6

The systems of process, colour progression and grouping which govern the development of the painting ensure subtle asymmetries and colour combinations and thereby celebrate the particularity of painting in an era of technical imaging. The aesthetic qualities of the work are partly dependent on the very materiality of paint and its application. The flat areas in the paintings is applied in acrylic paint while the rest of the canvas is worked using a wet-into-wet oil painting process. The very appearance of the painting is changeable according to lighting conditions. This painting results from the collision of ideas: the explorations of mirrors and mirrors which do not reflect and other deceptive surfaces and is also abstracted from hard-to-see iconic images displayed during Easter in Spain. The geometry of the non-mirror is borrowed from a renowned art historical source.