In these mono-prints I have isolated particular forms and colours to represent the original subject of flowers in a vase. These forms overlapping in informal composition and using non-representational bright colours, alike to fauvism, I feel represents a further stage moving towards 'pure abstraction'.
I choose mono-print as a process because, being unpredictable in nature, I felt it could mimic the focus on 'the expressionist gesture and act of painting itself' (Gagnon, L. 2012) seen in the work of abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock.
At first I made mono-prints simply using multiple prints of my cut-paper shapes in the primary colours of blue, yellow and red - then mixing together to make purples and greens.
I then used monotype over the top of a number of these prints, incorporating mark making and patterns inspired by earlier paintings in my visual journal experimenting with the idea of the expressionist gesture.
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