aerotomechanix/Juice 126

At the beginning of the 1990′s i  my experiments with the application of paint, the technique i called Colour Demolition it was the Rorschach test, the inkblot test, as a child at infants school it was one of the first things i did with paint “making butterflies”.

In the late 1980′s my experiments with Rorschach first took shape when i used tubed acrylic paint, applying it to acetate, the clear surface of the acetate allowed me to see the paint moving, and helped to guide me in creating a series of early experiments. I had been looking a contemporary artists who were pushing the boundaries of applying paint on to surfaces, Callum Innes, Nicolas May and Ian McKeever, and looking back in time Claude Monet, especially in the period when his eye site was failing him around 1922, these artists would influence my experiments with rorschach.

Pressed – 3
Tubed acrylic on Acetate
1989

Pressed – 1
Tubed acrylic on Acetate
1989

Tubed acrylic on Acetate
1989

When i moved my experiments to the aerosol realm, a happy accident occurred, as part of the Blueprint Gallery in Selly Oak, Birmingham i was able to get paint donations from car paint manufacturers, mixed in with these donations were touch up paint Cellulose paint for touching up scratches, useless for walls, but wicked for my experiments, my first large format canvas with Rorschach was Summertime, its still one of my favorite paintings. This and a variety of dripped works were exhibited at the 1st Graffiti Bastards Exhibition at the Custard Factory in Birmingham in 1996.

Summertime Pressed Flowers
Cellulose Paint on canvas
1993

Red Blue and Green Rorschach Acetate
Cellulose paint on Acetate
1992

I then moves back to acetate, applying aerosol paint and raw cellulose to the surface mixing metallic and standard car paint, raw cellulose has a very long drying time allowing me to repress add colours in areas, these small scale experiments  continue today, the variety of artists specialty paint Montanna, Belton, Monster and Buntlack all using different chemical paint formulas and drying times are a challenge i cannot refuse.

I moved onto glass metal and paper each surface in has its apparent risk and challenges, each time i extend the range and development of the technique, from 2010 onwards i have been combining my scrape technique and rorschach test, “Red Sky Sunset” featured in the Agents of Change, Ghost Mews Project / 10 Exhibition, putting a new experiment Red Sky Sunset along side the original acrylic acetate experiment. The Experiments continue as i continue to distort the colour texture boundary.

Copper Yellow and Blue Rorschach Acetate
Cellulose Aerosol Paint on Acetate
1992

Corals
Aerosol Paint on Glass
2009

Coral Details
Aerosol Paint on Glass
2010

Burgundy Rose Pink
Aerosol Paint on Acetate
2010

Purple Burgundy Pink
Aerosol Paint on Coated paper
2009

Gold Purple Blue
Aerosol Paint on Coated Paper Stickers
2009

Floral
Aerosol Paint on Glass
2010

Floral Details
Aerosol Paint on Glass
2010

Red Sky Sunset
Aerosol Paint on Glass
2010