I wanted to make something monolithic in an opening. I wasn’t that impressed with it at the time (tho now I think of TS eliots Sweeney ‘guarding the horned gate’ of Hades through which dreams pass) so I thought rather than waste the materials I’d print a copy off onto another sheet. The effect was exhilarating and Ive been trying to replicate it ever since without success. The startling behaviour of the paint is beautiful and sinister. The trouble is I can’t remember exactly what the paint was made of. I work quickly and spontaneously without much rigour, impatient to see the results. Around that time I think I was grating compressed charcoal into vegetable oil but I was also using carbon in fixative and I think had stated using black oil paint too.
Anyway, whilst this image lacks form and structure it does appear to me at least, to have captured the images of the type fractal shadow beasties from the unconscious realms in which I am interested.
JON WHITBREAD ART 