{"id":80,"date":"2020-08-30T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T11:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index_wp.php\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=80"},"modified":"2020-11-09T04:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T09:26:57","slug":"paintings","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/portfolio\/paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_accordion shape=&#8221;square&#8221; color=&#8221;white&#8221; c_icon=&#8221;triangle&#8221; active_section=&#8221;99&#8243; css_animation=&#8221;top-to-bottom&#8221; collapsible_all=&#8221;true&#8221;][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Artist statement&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;statement&#8221; el_class=&#8221;h4&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;top-to-bottom&#8221;]I have always been intrigued by how our eye moves through a painting as analogous to the motions of the eye as the body passes through space. The eye travels through a host of pathways, obstacles and detours, in a kind of catch and release action. Moving forward, backward or around, slowing down or speeding up in a visual scrutiny, whose rhythms and halting arrests of motion parallel the kinesthetic responses of the moving body.<\/p>\n<p>In my large-scale paintings I rely on two ways of creating space. The use of perspective to describe spatial depth, and a method used in architectural design \u2013 the ground plan diagram conceived schematically as in a map. By these different means my aim is to depict a variety of abstract forms and their relationships in space, together creating an imagined impression of place, of a virtual location.<\/p>\n<p>I treat acrylics like watercolor, making the most of its transparency, fluidity and luminosity to attain a greater potency in my particular use of color. This painterly, ambient environment provides a milieu in which geometrical images and rhythmic linear elements serve as a counterpoint. I also wish my forms to move: to cause looping lines to unravel and rigid contours of a shape to diffuse into its surroundings.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_accordion shape=&#8221;square&#8221; color=&#8221;white&#8221; c_icon=&#8221;triangle&#8221; active_section=&#8221;99&#8243; css_animation=&#8221;top-to-bottom&#8221; collapsible_all=&#8221;true&#8221;][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Artist statement&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;statement&#8221; el_class=&#8221;h4&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;top-to-bottom&#8221;]I have always been intrigued by how our eye moves through a painting as analogous to the motions of the eye as the body passes through space. The eye travels through a host of pathways, obstacles and detours, in a kind of catch and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[3],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-80","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-paintings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/80\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulaelliott.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tag?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}