Suite 111

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Consists of collages numbered 1 to 111, 14 x 11 inches, (sold individually)

The Suite 111 collages are composed with pre painted canvas pieces, offcuts and remainders from 45 years of making paintings. I refer to these as ‘retrospective collages’ as they may contain pieces of collages from any past year. I choose pieces I was inspired to place together and painted bands of colours alongside to compliment and bring alive what had initially inspired me to make the work. The colours, textures and character of these collages is a wide and diverse. Each work has and will develop its own character which I hope to have given its own voice and brought to a pictorial conclusion. I work on many pieces at any one time, responding to my impulses as and when they occur and individual pieces develop quickly and reach conclusion, or as some do, over many months. On conclusion I arranged them in a numerical order which I choose as I would have lost all track of the order of their start and finish.

This Suite was made in 2011 and concluded in November, the eleventh month, and when totaled coincidentally numbered, one hundred and eleven. And were so titled Suite 111.

Suite 111 is the largest suite of individual collages I have made to date