Looking For Truth 2017-18

This painting is created using straight edge geometry. This means that the relationships are only found using a compass and a straight edge. There are no rulers. As such it is a little like origami as the relationships within the rectangle are discovered through ever increasing divisions. The surface of the painting is layered to create an aesthetic that recalls the memory of school blackboards with their half erased history of the last lesson still showing though. Straight edge geometry was extremely important to Renaissance artists like Botticelli who divided his scenes and arranged them by a strict grid of chords derived from the internal geometry of his panels. This painting lays all that bare. In doing so it raises questions about truth in two ways. What is the naked reality of painting after all the artifice is removed and what relation does contemporary truth in the current media have to mathematical truths? Questions to ponder whilst you gaze at the painting...