In late January of 2019 I produced several works collaged from painted spirals.

January 22 and 23, 2019 I made two paintings, both highly abstracted renditions of Van Eyck’s portrait of Arnolfini. The source image and the two paintings are shown below:

In this painting, the portrait of Sinjun in red paint on an intense blue ground is entirely lost in the very coarse layers of red spirals. The border, the diamonds, the red rectangle – all are so interesting to me as well as the deep vibration between the blue and red lines.

Self portrait painting in yellow, red, blue, white on olive green ground on BFK. Still playing with various overlapping layers of different colors and tile size (spiral diameter).

Another self portrait painting, this one in red and blue spirals on white paper.

An interesting experiment in color and the interplay of layers of different size spirals. From a distance, the image of my wife is pretty low-key and neutral. Up close, there’s a pretty spectacular spectrum of brilliance. Red, yellow, blue, black, white painted on paper over a gray acrylic ground. I’m pretty attracted to all aspects […]

Self portrait – another more or less failed effort to attain a naturalistic color. Still playing with the scale and interplay of the spiral layers.

Painted in black and white acrylics over a gray acrylic ground, I was experimenting here with varying the scale of the spirals.