Cell Gallery
The idea of painting dots came to me as I was sketching an Iranian Opera, called Tap X Forbidden, that was created for the Tapestry Opera Company last winter.
The musical score was beautifully rhythmic and I had responded to the melody by making a dot for every beat. It didn’t make sense to me until I took the information back with me to the studio and tried to enlarge the piece and create a composition. The dots suggested the cosmos, a journey and a multilayered perspective.
I made the work larger on canvases sized 5’x6’, using acrylic paint as a backdrop and water based oils on top to add shimmering light or darker depth.
Elements of weather came into to play as influencers, such as rain, as well as objects in nature magnified through a lens until they reached abstraction.
During a Residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland I encountered Faerie circles, which introduced both a historical, and spiritual inspiration to the composition.
Bold colour, the sequence of pieces and and their attachment and embodiment of the “thin place”, meaning the distance between the spiritual world and the world as we know it, came into focus to direct the newest pieces.