Left Bank Art Gallery has a member’s exhibition coming up, ‘The sum of all parts’. I’m entering 3 20x20cm paintings floating in 30×30 wooden frames. It’s the first time I’ve used the floating frame set and love them.
I’m a messy painter so covered all the wood in painter’s tape before I picked up a crayon or brush. It stayed clean, so was worth the effort.
The process I used for the works was my standard semi-abstract process; paint, collage, more paint, more collage, mark making, (rinse and repeat) and final touches.
I’ve been reading colour theory books and testing some limited colour palettes. I settled on orange, deep violet and sap green for this trio. I’ve also been playing with red violet, blue green and Indian yellow.
The advantage of a limited palette is really understanding what the colours can do. Once you settle on one or two limited palettes, you can buy those six colours in all the materials you like – acrylic, watercolour, ink, oil pastels, crayons, pencils… You get the idea!
Cath Sheard Art 
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