Paul Mowbray Artist Craftsman

Pentimenti Series

Pentimento (or plural pentimenti) will be familiar to most who have studied paintings and have recognised a change in the paints texture hinting at ’something else’ beneath the existing surface of the painted work. It commonly takes the form of an artist making simple refinements in the placement of people, poses or objects, In some works it may even offer us visual signs of forgotten content, an aesthetic or contextual re-evaluation.. In my own series I consider the pentimenti as a residual memory layered and offered as a retained part of the complete theme. Personally, I find some themes difficult to evoke in a single opaque layer of paint on a surface. For part of pentimenti series I have included the ‘layering in’ of resonant iconic works, they ultimately convey a gravity under my imposed paint layering or the cubed modulations.

‘Gift of earth I, 2014, painted relief sculpture’ 480 mm x 480 mm.

In the ground layer I have included Massaccio’s ‘Expulsion of Adam and Eve’, Brancacci Chapel, Florence. The flat painted surface of the original I have sculpted into this relief form.

‘Gift of earth II, 2014, painted relief sculpture, 480 mm x 480 mm

Above: view the relief sculpture used in the making of 'Gift of earth II' - here

'Lapis sources',2014, 480 mm x 480 mm,

'Lapis sources' - Gessoed board tiles painted and coated with an array of natural and synthetic ultramarines

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