Art Forum
Vol 52 - 2013.
Fine Art.
Artist; Ian Davenport
Colorfall.
Ian Davenports colourfull creations where designed and produced to investigate the connections between colour, surface, movement and light, and how the alterations of one of these elements can depict the end result. Davenports first inspirations for this project came from the concept of converging historical events with modern technology. He says ''By following the colour sequences from another artist’s palette, I am able to explore and question my own choices of line and hue. Photoshop is also used to establish a framework, from which I introduce an element of chance'
His paintings produce continual lines of paint, of different chromatic weights, merging together to create a colourful rhythm of interweaving colours. Davenport produces each piece by the use of a large syringe, which he then uses to drip different colours and amounts of acrylic paint, onto unusual surfaces such as aluminium and steel panels. From there he lets chance direct the painting, gravity pulls the paint down the surface, allowing the liquid form of the paints to drip, flow and blend.
Colour is very captivating to me, and I enjoy the continual linear effect created by the paint, followed by the deep and psychedelic merging of the paint as it reaches its final destination at the end of the surface. His concept and use of chance in his paintings is also a concept i find very thought provoking in art, and is an aspect I would like to bring into my own art practice in the future.
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