Ian Davenport

Ian Davenport

This work has influenced me because of the way that the paint moves.

Many of Davenport's works are made by pouring paint onto a tilted surface and letting gravity spread the paint over the surface. He has usually worked on medium density fibreboard rather than canvas, and most often employs household gloss paint, meaning the viewer can see their own reflection in the work. He has made a number of diptychs and triptychs as well as single works.

"His large-scale wall paintings are made using a syringe to pour paint, in vertical stripes, from the top edge to the floor. The painting process is formal and repetitive, like a scientific experiment, but the final image contains irregularities, where the paint is diverted by the wall surface, and surprises, where particular colour combinations create unexpected visual results."





I found that in my opinion the "paint puddle" that have collected on the floor are more interesting than the actual painting.
I like the swirls of paint on the floor against the straight lines of paint.

Sculptures and instilations by Henrique Oliveira

Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis

"Like other artists such as Yves Klein, Benglis' mimicked Jackson Pollock's flinging and dripping methods of painting.Works such as Fallen Painting (1968) inform the approach with a feminist perspective. For this work, Benglis smeared Day-Glo paint across the gallery floor invoking "the depravity of the 'fallen' woman" or, from a feminist perspective, a "prone victim of phallic male desire".These brightly colored organic floor pieces were intended to disrupt the male-dominated minimalism movement with their suggestiveness and openness.^"

Last stage of experiments

Sooo after ages of not knowing where my works going and expeimenting I have started to think about my finial piece. I have been looking at household items such as bowls, plates, drinking glasses then this led on to thinking about ojects with unusual shapes like irons and kettles, but after thinking about the shapes I don't like the idea of just using the shapes that already exsist on the objects. I then started to think about what objects I could destroy or destort. The objects would be a blank canvas for the paint to form over and the destored broken things would make the paint fall in an unusual way; missing bits and creating odd lines. I have started to think about doing 3-5 pieces all showing an item being destroyed; for example a ball being full at the first piece and then on the third piece its been stamped on the finially on the fifth piece its completely flat; i've also thought of doing this with plastic bottles and watering cans.
I want to display them in a row showing the destruction of the object in stages and showing how the paint falls over all the different areas. The ball would be placed on perspex so it gives an illusion to the paint with mirrors displayed underneathe as its hanging to show all the different patterns in the paint.
Here are the photographs that I took while experimenting with the deflated ball.. I think I like it...

Jackson Pollock Film

Paint sculptures

After experimenting for a few weeks I have finially settled on an idea.
My idea is to pour vibrant coloured paint over blocks of wood that have been towered up in a way that the paint will not stay on them. I need to work on making the wood structure strong enough to be able to be moved.
I am going to put the wood structure on glass or perspex to catch the paint puddles so that when it is displayed I can hang them up with fishing wire and it can be viewed from underneathe too.

Craig costello's spectacular drip painting

Craig Costello - a pretty spectacular drip painting done in a loft space