Dot Drawings, Dot Paintings

The drawings begin with one small mark - a circle, a dot - that is repeated until an entire ground is covered. The process is slow. It takes about 30 hours to cover and 18” x 18” piece of paper. The setup is intellectual, but the result is organic. Shifts in pattern simply happen. The dot paintings evolved out of the drawings. The drawings allowed me to recognize the wooden domes as a medium. Wooden grounds are covered with hundreds, or in the case of the larger pieces, thousands of tiny raised wooden domes (cabinet makers’ wood plugs). Grounds are painted one colour, domes another. The colour one sees is both colours in a combination which vibrates because of the variation in depth from ground to dome.