Paper Collages

“The waste of the world becomes my art.” Kurt Schwitters

 

 

Paint Rag & Palette

“I... ironed out all the paint rags... beautiful... I glued them down.”
Patricia Douthwaite

 

 

Assemblages

“Robert Rauschenberg literally began to fill the gap between art and life.”
Barbara Rose

 

 

Boxed Assemblages

“States of order... organic intensity... energy and motion made visible... memories arrested in space.” Jackson Pollock

 

 

Squaring the Circle

“I am just trying to find a way to make a picture.” Jasper Johns

 

 

All-Overs (Here, there and everywhere)

“Scientists say that there is no such thing as empty space.
It’s all loaded with life... teeming with electrical energy, potential sights
and sounds, spores, seeds and God knows what all.” Mark Tobey

 

 

Elongations

“Giacometti elongates his figures... to render what he sees,
to make a likeness.” Jacques Dupin

 

 

Grisailles (Shades of Grey)

“All grey. Shades of grey (pause)
The colour grey if you wish, shades of the colour grey.”
Samuel Beckett

 

 

Chalk & Flint

“I suppose a painting is something like a musical score,
which people play back to themselves.” John Wells

 

 

Grids & Crystals

“My interest is in experience that is wordless and silent.”
Agnes Martin

 

 

Reliefs

“I work with very few elements... I build with primitive materials.”
Arvo Part

 

 

Tangrams

“Restraint and limitation reveals the master.” Ancient Chinese saying