Dockland Illusion 1983

The above painting was painted using "Humbrol"enamels above a sheet of well "primed" 6mm sheet steel mounted upon a hard wood frame.
The central image is the same as my painting "River Mosaic" that is utilised as the "Banner" for this "Blog".

At the time that I created "Dockland Illusion" I was fascinated by pattern and realised that it could be used to form an image, as in the principle of "mosaic" that utilises small coloured cubes to represent more complex forms, but that also pattern could be used to distress or disrupt an image as with for example raindrops on a windscreen or that indeed it could also be used to integrate multiple images into a single "whole"..

This idea became the underlying principle in the creation of this piece as at the centre pattern is used to form the image (in the form of tiny squares of colour) whereas in the surrounding "outside" areas pattern is used to disrupt and also to form the idea of a dockland surrounding (integrating a number of seperate "images" into the illusion of a singular "whole")..