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Fracture section XIII Metal Print
by Paul Davenport
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Fracture section XIII metal print by Paul Davenport. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of a metal print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 1/16" thick aluminum. The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4" thick wooden frame which is attached to the back. The high gloss of the aluminum sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.
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This piece is taking a further quarter of a rotated grid and enlarging it. I wanted to have as little control over the resulting compositions as... more
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Artist's Description
This piece is taking a further quarter of a rotated grid and enlarging it. I wanted to have as little control over the resulting compositions as possible. Tthese sections are the end result, and the aim of the project.
As I am one of those people who can stare for hours at a piece of twig or stare lovingly at a rock - I thought I would explore our ability to appreciate natural phenomenon.
This project started by taking some photographs of rock faces with cracks and fractures that I thought it would be interesting to develop the concept of naturally occurring art.
Other than cutting out sections along the fractures to give interesting shapes, I haven't composed any of this work - rather... as it developed, I devised a system of grids, placing the original samples randomly, then started rotating sections of the grid to overlay other grids underneath and then applying layer filters.
About Paul Davenport
I started off in fine art, by going to Wakefield School of Art and then St Martins in London to do Sculpture, I have spent most of my time (after going to Camberwell School of Art for a Graphics degree) doing graphic design, working through various sectors including publishing, sales promotion, marketing, and design consultancies, before starting my own company in 1995. I have always to some extent kept up with the fine art - even when this just meant going out sketching with my dad... and its always played a big part in my design work. Most recently though I have being doing rather allot of drawing, re igniting a passion for my long lost love of fine art (or scribbling). From sketching my neighbours little girl, I found myself...
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Alex Lapidus
Congratulations, your image has been featured in the Experimental Photography group -- thanks for sharing it with us! Please feel free to add it to the 2022 Feature Archive in the Discussion section (using the "embed" link on your image page).
Paul Davenport replied:
Thank you very much Alex :-)
Diamante Lavendar
Wonderful texture!
Paul Davenport replied:
Thank you very much :-)
Grant Osborne
Nice work
Ann Skelton
Beautiful colors and textures Paul! l/f
Paul Davenport replied:
Thank you Ann... this was actually a very time consuming project... given the results were mainly random :-) Was fun watching things pop up when set in motion though!
Paul Davenport
Thank you very much Jannice for the feature in the "All Art Welcome" group:-)
Robyn King
Congratulations your beautiful work is being featured in the World We See Group:-)
Paul Davenport replied:
Thank you very much for the feature Robyn:-)
Paul Davenport
Thank you very much Colette for the feature in the "Paints and Art Photography" group:-)
Paul Davenport
Thank you very much John for the feature in the "Images that Excite" group:-)