Creative Processes:
To Rodney art is everywhere, in the formations of trees and rocks, in the lines, shadows and details of a building, in the graffiti on street walls, on advertising billboards and packaging, in a child’s drawing, in a doodle.
Architect Louis Khan said "The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building".
The theme of much of my work develops during the sketching process. Once a theme is decided, detailing is added and then colour if required
Cityscape Jerusalem
The Colonialist
So There You Are
We know that artists have changed the colours of a work by using different techniques and media such as silk-screen, etching, Lino cuts, wood block & more.
Rodney's interest differed. He wanted to know and understand how different colours affect a viewer's response to the same work...and this led to digital art and the OPUS Series - from his sketches to a digital painting
A computer monitor became a canvas, apps his brush, paints, pastels, inks, pencils...
The MOTIF Series
Using digitized segments of a finished painting & then combining them to make a new digital painting
Would the great Masters have used modern technology if it had been available?
Rodney believes they would have; think Warhol and Hockney.
OPUS 37 - BK
OPUS 37 - GY
MOTIF 332 - A
Orange Landscape to MOTIF 332
Acrylic On Raised Birch Panel
MOTIF 332 - C
Abstraction
Always having flirted with Abstract Art Rodney often finds himself crossing over to this form.
As he continues on this journey in Abstraction, he says
"I have spent wonderful times discovering what I can create without emotion or reality"
Conundrum
Acrylic On Stretched Canvas
MOTIF 332 - A
"Let the creation be a visual and cerebral experience of colour, shape, form and texture"