Small Colour Drawings
Small colour drwngs 1
"11 Greens" (solo)
"Yellow, All Warm" (solo)
"Lavender + Leaf" (solo)
"Turquoise To The Edge" (solo)
"Dark Orange: Three Transparencies" (solo)
"Cool Green; Filling the Leaf, The Basket" (solo)
"Chromatic Grey: Spark" (solo)
"Yellow: Diminished - In or Out" (solo)
"Yellow: Ladder" (solo)
Shift, Richmond Art Gallery - 2007
Shift: RAG - 2007
Shift: RAG - 2007
Shift: RAG - 2007
Shift: RAG - 2007
Shift: RAG - 2007
Shift: RAG - 2007
Shift: RAG - 2007
Shift: RAG - 2007
Studio Installation

2005 to present
sewing thread on COLOR AID Paper
size varriable between 3" x 3.5" and 4" x 6" (8cm to 15cm per side)

The SMALL COLOUR DRAWINGS are threadings done on COLOR AID paper, a silk-screaned paper developed by Joseph Albers as part of his strategy for teaching Color at Yale University in the 1950-60s.

COLOR AID paper is one of the tools I also use when teaching colour. I love it's pure radiant colour and had always wanted to use it as a material in my studio work.

I began creating these pieces because they are smaller and faster - allowing me to produce threaded work which is more like a "sketch".

In the installation for SHIFT, at the Richmond Art Gallery in 2007, the work was arranged in an oval configuration on a 150cm x 304cm (5' x 10') light blue rectangle painted on the gallery wall. The pieces were attached to the wall on wire prongs which allowed them to hover about 1.5 centimetres (1/2') in front of the wall. Their surfaces slightly wafted in the ambient breeze while casting wonky, fibrillating, delicate blue shadows on the wall.
In this installation I also included some small threaded sculptures made of leaves, pods and bark.