GALLERY

EXHIBITION SERIES (Number 19)

This is the main prizewinner, it's titled "Cataract Monsoon"...paint is applied in droplets, onto a laid out, flat canvas, from an optimum height of plus or minus ten metres.  On impact the different coloured droplets fuse and bleed into and over each other, eventually creating an image such as we see here.  Time consuming in the extreme, especially on such a large canvas; this particular work took the best part of eight years to complete.  The key thing, of course, is to know when the piece is finished.  The technique was originally known as "rainfallism", the falling droplets of paint being akin to falling rain.  Later the term was shortened to "fallism" and quite recently it's become known as "showerism" and "neo-showerism"