This is a large abstract painting
And there’s no mistaking it for anything but. It’s colours are big, the shapes are big and the overall impact is, well, big!
Let’s be honest here, if you have a wall space big enough then the chances are that the rest of your room is going to be of an equally grand nature. Filling large empty spaces (with anything) can be tricky but finding a painting that can not only cover it and fill it but also make you tingle every time you walk past it can be almost impossible.
Why I painted it
After having worked for months on things like my cutting-edge carbon fibre artworks I have finally begun creating a series of large format paintings that are deliberately imposing but also very well behaved. My plans include all colour themes, and a lot of different styles, but they will all carry the same qualities – impact, maturity and depth.
Hemispheres is the first completed painting in this new ‘big series’ and is the prefect combination of ying and yang for almost any large wall space.
Where the ideas came from
With this canvas I wanted to contain the dancing abstract paint shapes into a central mass – leaving the edges white to give everything some much needed room to breathe. So far so good. The colour choices were led by a client of mine who had asked me to paint for them using this beautifully balanced selection of light and dark.
In here you’ll find a couple of dense, rich blues and two very subtle pinks. Added to this are the purple colours (three in total) and these work so well because they act as a bridging point between blue and pink. I wanted to avoid the harshness of these colours as they met each other so I used purple as the link between them. Works like a dream. It calms everything down and creates warmth at the very heart of the painting.
Finally we see hints of other colours like gold, black, silver, turquoise, cream and white.