Veilform 15 is part of No Format Gallery's Drawing Open 2024 exhibition, previewing on Thursday 9 May. The drawing uses a combination of ruled lines and flowing movement, where incremental shifts in the position of the ruler leave pencil trails of each movement. The trails are then built up into curving planes of lines, reminiscent of the barbs of a feather or fins of a fish. The process is used to develop forms which look at the sense of depth, distance, movement and presence in two-dimensional space.
Oil pencil drawing on gesso board, frame size 28.8cm x 24.8cm. On sale during the exhibition.
Preview: Thursday 9 May, 18.00-20.30
Exhibition open: 10-12 May, 16-19 May, 12.00 - 18.00
No Format Gallery, Arklow Road/Moulding Lane, London SE14 6BN

Vellform photos: https://www.rbarnes.co.uk

An expanded drawing appearing as I remove threads from a small box maquette that’s being re-worked.

The threads, which had been installed a couple of years ago to create a sculpture inside the box, seem to be retaining the tension of the original straight lines even after they've been released - bouncing out from their fixings to make a lively bundle rather than simply falling straight down into a flat pool.

Veils 4 is currently showing in Open Crate, an online group exhibition curated by Alfa Gallery on Artsy, between 15 April and 25 June 2024.

The drawing is part of the ongoing Veilforms series which build up form through repeated lines and movement.  The drawings work with relationships of form and space in two dimensions, focusing development on contrasting senses of depth, distance, height and intricacy.

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Veils 4: oil pencil on watercolour paper, 55.9 x 76.2mm

Red Triangle is one of my selected works in Between Dimensions, an online group exhibition curated by Expanded Drawing Practices, see https://expandeddrawingpractices.blogspot.com. The exhibition looks at the ways in which the dialogue between dimensions can affect the development of a drawing, presenting a selection of artists whose work traverses 2D, 3D and 4D to further realise the latent potentials of the medium.

Red Triangle (2021) is the photograph of a mini-installation where a 3d red triangle is held in balance by threads on a large-scale 2d drawing. The work connects the physical forms across the dimensions, while the photo captures a moment in time when sunlight and shadows added a further set of time-based forms.