Timeless Contemporary
Exploring unconscious colour
Ptolemy Mann
Ptolemy Mann
Exploring unconscious colour New small paintings I have often felt that the act of dyeing thread is deeply related to the act of painting. When I‘m in the dye lab it involves an almost spontaneous gestural movement; working quickly to saturate the white thread with colour and much like watercolour painting once the colour is on the thread, its permanent. Since 1992 I have been exploring the relationship between colour and the white thread and now, for the first time, I‘m applying this same dynamic to painting on paper. The aim is to capture the same immediacy and energy generated in the dye lab as intuitive, colour saturated paintings looking at the relationship between transparency and opacity. Inevitably the language of warp and weft penetrates this work too: bands of vertical and horizontal colour intersect whilst suspended above floating colourfields. For a long time I‘ve been interested in two specific things: accidental colour and unconscious colour. It transpires that these two ideas; when filtered through the act of painting, reveal a surprising vivacity and capture a dynamic colourful moment. Over the last year I have been generating these new works whenever (and wherever) I can, using the act of painting as a personal meditative process. In complete contrast to the exquisite slowness of the woven artworks these pieces are small scale punches of spontaneous, emotional colour.
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All paintings are liquid watercolour, gouache and acrylic on watercolour paper
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Mann infront of her „Circadian Rhythm“ thread paintings at the Tate Modern.
Colour study 110 – 29,7 cm Breite x 21 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
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Ptolemy Mann
Exploring unconscious colour New small paintings I have often felt that the act of dyeing thread is deeply related to the act of painting. When I‘m in the dye lab it involves an almost spontaneous gestural movement; working quickly to saturate the white thread with colour and much like watercolour painting once the colour is on the thread, its permanent. Since 1992 I have been exploring the relationship between colour and the white thread and now, for the first time, I‘m applying this same dynamic to painting on paper. The aim is to capture the same immediacy and energy generated in the dye lab as intuitive, colour saturated paintings looking at the relationship between transparency and opacity. Inevitably the language of warp and weft penetrates this work too: bands of vertical and horizontal colour intersect whilst suspended above floating colourfields. For a long time I‘ve been interested in two specific things: accidental colour and unconscious colour. It transpires that these two ideas; when filtered through the act of painting, reveal a surprising vivacity and capture a dynamic colourful moment. Over the last year I have been generating these new works whenever (and wherever) I can, using the act of painting as a personal meditative process. In complete contrast to the exquisite slowness of the woven artworks these pieces are small scale punches of spontaneous, emotional colour.
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All paintings are liquid watercolour, gouache and acrylic on watercolour paper
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Mann infront of her „Circadian Rhythm“ thread paintings at the Tate Modern.
Colour study 110 – 29,7 cm Breite x 21 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
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Colour study 126 – 29,7 cm Breite x 21 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
Paxos Painting // Violet Geranium Teal – 29,7 cm Breite x 21 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
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Colour study 126 – 29,7 cm Breite x 21 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
Paxos Painting // Violet Geranium Teal – 29,7 cm Breite x 21 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
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Paxos Painting // Red Turquoise Green (on black) – 21 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
Paxos Painting // Purple Lime Maroon (on black) – 21cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
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Paxos Painting // Red Turquoise Green (on black) – 21 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
Paxos Painting // Purple Lime Maroon (on black) – 21cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
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Norfolk Blue – 21cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
Paxos Painting // Turquoise Orange Norfolk Neon – 21 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
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Norfolk Blue – 21cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
Paxos Painting // Turquoise Orange Norfolk Neon – 21 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
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Colour Study 4.11.12.18 – 21 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
Colour Study 6.11.12.18 – 21 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
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Colour Study 4.11.12.18 – 21 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
Colour Study 6.11.12.18 – 21 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
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Colour Study 50 – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
Sussex Painting // Colour Study with Red Lime Navy – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
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Colour Study 50 – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
Sussex Painting // Colour Study with Red Lime Navy – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
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Sussex Painting // Colour Study 118 – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
Sussex Painting // Primary Colour – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
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Sussex Painting // Colour Study 118 – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2019
Sussex Painting // Primary Colour – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
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Sussex Painting // Maroon Red Yellow – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
Sussex Painting // Colour Study Green Orange Blue – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
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Sussex Painting // Maroon Red Yellow – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
Sussex Painting // Colour Study Green Orange Blue – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
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Colour Study 45 (with Pink and Blue) – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
Colour Study 5.11.12.18 – 21 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
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Colour Study 45 (with Pink and Blue) – 42 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
Colour Study 5.11.12.18 – 21 cm Breite x 29,7 cm Höhe – Jahr 2018
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