Pink & Blue
80 x 61 cm, oil on panel, 2017-2019
a Little Humanity
61 x 40 cm, oil on panel, 2018-2019
Draped Spaces expands on Pieter’s previous ideas of figure-ground painting with the addition of more specific textures, colours, and a border condition that is not only generated by the figure touching and interacting with the ground, but takes on its own dimension and calligraphic character. By doing so the border begins to mediate and dictate the interaction between figure and ground. The figure is also more expressive than in past series.
This series draws very literal, initial inspiration from drapery and begins to examine the curtain as an element that separates spaces of different qualities, and the quality that it lends to the space. By drawing this phenomenon in a circular manner a figure is formed that is framed and isolated within a ground-space.
Blue Red & Yellow
61 x 80 cm, oil on panel, 2018-2019
an Idea of Spring
61 x 40 cm, oil on panel, 2018-2019
White Flag #1
80 x 61 cm, oil on panel, 2017-2019
With these works Pieter returns to using oil paint and has chosen to work on panel. Draped Spaces also marks an end to the use of the limited, dark palatte of the former series Dark Space Dark Matter, and the Slugs. Draped Spaces is very much an examination and celebration of painting, and of color.
White Flag #2
122 x 61 cm, oil on panel, 2017-2019