Acrylic on 9 canvas panels

Overall dimensions: 36”x 36”

In these pieces I am really pushing the notion of constraints as a creative tool. for these paintings I established strict rules on what forms and colors I could use and challenged myself to see what I could come up with.

I find that working within constraints and systems can be incredibly liberating and exciting. They are a way of calming the inner dialog and focusing attention onto what is essential.

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I love layering shapes and colors to see what kind of balance can be achieved in a composition. It’s such geeky fun to just play around with shapes. These pieces are all made by arranging the canvas into a grid of squares and then populating them with quarter circles so that there could be no open ends (ie. each quarter circle had to meet another quarter circle or an edge of the canvas). Then I layered the shapes to create a composition.

I did literally hundreds of sketches on pads of squared paper to explore the possible combinations until I found ones that felt right.