Artists

Tina her pours are inspired by the movement and colors of Southern Arizona’s amazing thunderstorms, and the majestic beauty of the Pacific Northwest, which she now calls home.

Tina Swearingen

Melanie Burns

Linda king

Linda loves to be adventurous, but not with her color choices. We has a couple of colors she sticks to who are succesful for her and she comfortable hanging in her house. She likes it that people can react differently to a painting, descripting a painting like “Lily of the Valley” or “A bouquet of white tulips” even “lettuce salad!”! That’s the wonderful abstract nature of acrylic pouring. The same painting can bring a unique image to each person who views it.

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My paintings are visually abstract but reference nature, contemporary culture and a sense of time and memory. The paintings are created with layers of poured paint that are then edited down to an essential form or specific interaction. I combine very fluid movements of paint with hard-edged shapes and flat intense backgrounds, constantly shifting the viewer’s eye until shape becomes negative and space becomes shape. My interests lie with the juxtaposition of boundaries that subvert perception.

Sometimes colors reference nature; algae and moss, a storm coming in, burnt ground, the leaves changing. Other times, the colors are chosen as a visual response to the urban environment, contemporary fashion, billboards and advertisements. Color is a very strong focus of my work. I try to approach color as a means of discovery. This means that sometimes the colors picked are subtle and quiet, and other times very bold and assertive.

While her acrylic pouring pieces are abstract, the vibrant scenes she creates depict some of her favorite memories of spending time on the water in Alaska. Many of the scenes in her artwork include sunsets, ocean scenes, and some of her favorite marine animals such as whales.

After she pours the paint, Burns “babysits” the piece by moving and pulling the paint around using a spatula, twine, a straw and other devices to create the scene she wants. Sometimes she goes back into a painting to add finer details, such as when she incorporates a sea creature into her painting. Burns says the way a piece looks when she first starts always looks different when she’s finished because the paint is constantly moving on the canvas due to chemical reactions.

Vanish 2015

Intervals - A Secret Understanding 2019

Studio Exhibition/West Wall

Intervals - Interval of Time 2018

Intervals - Inside/Out 2018

ToDo: add materials like sand, glass, alcohol or glitter to mixture

One of his so-called ‘veil’ paintings, was made by pouring very liquid paint down its surface. In applying paint in this way Louis was reacting against Abstract Expressionist painters. They had emphasised gestural brushwork as a means of personal expression. By pouring paint, Louis sought to exclude expression because the artist no longer directly controlled the marks which resulted. Also, the stained canvas no longer ‘bore’ a representative image. Instead it became an object in itself.

After the ‘veil’ paintings, Louis developed his pouring technique in a series of works known as the ‘unfurleds’. ‘Alpha-Phi’ belongs to this series. In these works Louis poured lines of pure colour across the bottom corners of the painting, leaving the centre bare. This became known as the ‘one-shot’ technique because the artist had only one attempt at a successful pour. If the line went astray there was no second chance. These lines stress the painting’s flatness, leading the eye across and out of its surface.

Morris Louis

Note: Most artist use nature
(a specific country) as reference

Note: It is interesting that viewers experience the artpieces differently

Note: Artists often add things afterwards

Questions:
Who make use of the technique and why?
Do they work with a concept/title/series/targetgroup/reason?
What are there inspirations?

Note: Abstract art which tells a story

ToDo: Pour over other objects which aren't flat (rocks, wood,tiles etc)

Insta Inspiration

ToDo: Using balloons, bottles, bullet chain, comb, fingers and straw to splash, hair dryer, colander

Pin Inspiration