"AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF CANVAS"

"Supporting Paint and Visbility", through the carving away of canvas, which reveals images beyond and behind the canvas. Illuminated with Gold Leaf and LED lights.

"Wall hangings that interrupt colour and light". Three dimensional images of intense colour, and brilliance.

"Exposing images from Bristol board and other media" Exploring how images develop and reveal themselves from the flat surface.

The prints are produced in various methods, the traditional etching, linocuts, and a unique process developed in Tenerife of laser cutting an aluminium plate, and then printing on various wieghts of cotton paper up to 1000gm.

THE CUT CANVAS style is achieved by stretching canvas or linen onto frames, the fabric is triple coated with Gesso, and then a coat of acrylic paint. The surface is then cut with a scalpel, and twezzers to avoid tearing the fabric. Once the cutting is complete, the painting, and in particular the cut edges, is then painted. The surface is strong enough to further cut and painted until finished.

Some paintings have a second image, which is veiwed through the cut canvas. The artwork is finished gold leaf, reflecting colour through the front canvas. The work is then fitted with cold cathode lights to the void.

THIS PRINT process is unique in Tenerife. The original image is drawn in ink on Sennelier Bristol Board. The drawing is scanned to a very high-resolution and then laser cut on an aluminium plate.

The images are printed on dampened Zerkal 350 gram or special 1000 gram cotton paper from the Basque country. The printing process is carried out by hand on machines, some of which were imported from France and were used by artists like Picasso when he was in Paris.   The process produces a more sculptured effect than that of a normal etching, this catches the light and enhances the relief of the drawing.

MATERIALS

Ken Bromley Art suppliers, very helpful and economical supplier: http://www.artsupplies.co.uk/

Very helpful artist suppliers, more traditional materials and unusual items:   http://www.lawrence.co.uk/

Lovely sketch books, handy to carry around, quality paper:  http://www.moleskine.co.uk/

 

 SPECIALISTS

Specialist company dealing with lighting sound , they have keen interest in the specialist lighting of art and associated

sound if required, contact Graham Owens at www.technovations.co.uk

RICHARD GOOD was born in England but spent his early childhood in Kenya. After some years back in England the family moved to in Nigeria. This African upbringing instilled in Richard the desire to travel and live all over the world. He studied art and design in London in the 1970s and for many years had a design business in Bristol, England.

Since his move to Tenerife he has held several successful exhibitions and his work is in private collections all over the world.

As many a painter before him, Richard is inspired by the female form, and landscape producing paintings and drawings to capture the form as part of the landscape and flashes of movement and pose. The conbination of the two has resulted in the "Bodyscape" series.

The cut canvases he approaches as a surgeon with a scalpel never drawing the subject first, but carving the picture from the canvas. He tries to break down the flat surface, adding body and sculpture to the work; this gives depth and imparts transparency and light to the canvas or paper.