Revolver

Artwork to be supplied with a Diasec mount and tray frame
From an edition of 8
 
Mounted behind AR70 and fitted with a laser cut Perspex frame 
 
I drew the first of the Revolver series, Revolver 1, back in 2005, it’s one of the earliest studies from the project, and one that forms the basis for much of what has been drawn since, especially with regard to the idea of using a square format, and a circular line.
 
Unlike later works, there are no glazes or transparencies here, simply the linework in motion, captured at a particular moment in time.
The studies are off centre, a little off kilter, and that tension, I think, is where the interest lies.
 
Building on work pioneered by Kenneth Noland, amongst many others, the Revolver series clearly riffs on the 60’s Op moment, but also progresses it with a new, more complex, treatment of the linework, and pays particular attention to the way the colours are handled.
 
There’s a confidence in the minimalism too, which has perhaps now given way to a more detailed approach to working, that exchanges the immediacy of these early studies for a more complex relationship with the image making process.
That tension between the beauty of minimalist simplicity and the intrigue of the mathematical figuration is certainly something that’s I’ll be thinking more about over the coming years.