AND
NOW A FEW WORDS FROM THE FRAME…
It would seem, in retrospect, that from the age of seven when my grandmother
gave me a book on the works of Paul Cezanne, I became intrigued by the tyranny
of the picture plane and how in the accepted orthodoxy of Modernism it was a
travesty to recede or proceed from this plane. (The picture plane is equivalent
to the surface of the picture, be it paper, canvas whatever.)
Many of my murals were ‘Trompe l’oeil’, commissioned by heretical
architects and designers. These were spatial illusions in which the ‘frame’
acted as a portal between the real three dimensional world and the painted illusion.
Having once been an architect proved to be very useful here. The painting ‘It’s
mostly in the Frame’ demonstrates illusion succinctly.
In this exhibition I examine how the frame acts as a portal, a focussing device
and most of all how it emphasises the picture plane.
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