"Wovens"

These paintings are oil or acrylic on canvas or cotton fabrics. Some are free hanging, others fastened to board/frames.

The technique of painting on woven fabrics began with a 'gift' of some old bedsheets from a neighbor who thought I might could use them to wrap up a painting or something. It was just at the time I was considering how to add some interesting texture to a few 24" x 24" panels I had constructed. I tore a white sheet into one-inch strips and experimented with a basketweave over the wood.

This concept soon evolved into using canvas, woven and hanging loose without a support other than the top rod to hang it from.

The woven canvas is free hanging across the panels, while the thinner cotton fabrics are embedded into the painting as a textured panel.

On this page are several examples of my version of woven paintings.

Confrontation
acrylic on cotton & board
24" x 24"

Assimilation
acrylic on cotton & board
24" x 24"

Dissolution
acrylic on cotton & board
24" x 24"
Manifestation
acrylic on cotton & board
24" x 24"
Infinite/Infintessence
acrylic on cotton & board
24" x 24"

detail of the woven single fabric piece
Nest pas une egg
acrylic on cotton & board
32 " x 24"
The Spectator
oil on canvas & board
24" x 30"
The Observer - diptych
oil on canvas & board
24" x 43" overall
Caribbean II
acrylic on canvas & board
21" x 33"
Caribbean II
(detail)
Rock: Agate
oil on canvas & board
24" x 24"
Sold

Oranges
acrylic on canvas & board
16" x 20"

Apples
acrylic on canvas & board
16" x 16"
Pears
acrylic on canvas & board
16" x 20"

What I like so much with the woven canvas is the 3-dimensional look achieved - not only actual dimension, but adding shadows and highlights building illusion as well. After completing the fruit above, I decided to go with a more abstraction and created the bunches of grapes in the Vintage series below. These are small works hanging well in groupings, like so many grapes on a vine. I have also shown them in Christmas exhibitions where that context transformw them into holiday ornaments.

Fire & Water
Acrylic on canvas
40" x 55"

Golden Sands
Acrylic & gold leaf on canvas
30"x 30"
Golden Sands - detail
Millennium I
voyage of Leif Erikkson 1004 AD
with portions of the Saga in text
Acrylic on canvas
40" x 55"
Millennium I - detail

Aire
Acrylic & ink on cotton
36" x 40"

Sold

Caribbean I
Acrylic on canvas
27" x 42"

Caribbean I - detail
Fire
oil on paper
36" x 48"
Sold

To complete these selections, I have occasionally cut digital prints into strips and woven two pictures together. There are different ways to do this...on the left, the same image printed in color and again in monochromatic for this effect. On the right, two different images with similar forms which by weaving blends them into a rather surreal illusion.

All are originals, one of a kind

The Place Between
woven digital prints
20" x 16"
framed
$600
One Becomes the Other
woven digital prints
20" x 16"
framed
$600
Vintage 3
Acrylic on cotton & board
16" X 12"
Vintage 5
Acrylic on cotton & board
16" X 12"
Vintage 6
Acrylic on cotton & board
16" X 12"
Vintage 2
Acrylic on cotton & board
16" X 12"
Vintage 1
Acrylic on cotton & board
12" X 16"
Vintage 4
Acrylic on cotton & board
12" X 16"
Vintage 7
Acrylic on cotton & board
12" X 16"
Vintage 8
Acrylic on cotton & board
12" X 16"

The above examples are simply 3-dimensional paintings.

The next level of woven paintings are akin to wall hangings. Loose, woven canvas that are quite eye-catching in every exhibition they are in, and I love them on my walls at home. These are painted on both sides of the canvas with differing patterns of color that add to the fluidity of the work. Each has some dimension from the weaving, about 3" or 4" from the wall.

 

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