Trees on The Beach in Curacao
Creative Processes:
To me 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.
His interest differed. I 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 my sketches to a digital painting
A computer monitor became a canvas and apps became my brush, paints, pastels, inks and 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
Orange Landscape to MOTIF 332
Acrylic On Raised Birch Panel
MOTIF 332 - A
MOTIF 332 - C
Abstraction
Always having flirted with Abstract Art I often find myself crossing over to this form.
As I continue on this journey in Abstraction,
"I have spent wonderful times discovering what I can create without emotion or reality"
"Let the creation be a visual and cerebral experience of colour, shape, form and texture"
Conundrum
Acrylic On Stretched Canvas
MOTIF 332 - A
Rodney's work is in Private Collections in Canada, Australia, South Africa, US, Israel, Germany & England.