After making a few paintings based on my favourite network drawings, in 2014, I began to think about unstretched paintings and remembered some early Richard Tuttle fabric paintings from the 1970s. I worked with a seamstress to hem a number of irregularly shaped polygons that I then began to dye, stain and paint. This resulted in a new series of “shaped and draped” paintings some using yardage from some remnants that I had been collecting over the years. I was also trying to find a way to present this work in a less conventional way and so I began overlapping different pieces of coloured fabrics and sewing and pinning these works along the top edge. Several of these remnants were from bolts of fabric that someone had cut and taken sample from. I liked this chance element to the work and that resulted in a number of irregularly shaped paintings with various removed rectangles.

After exhibiting these paintings in several exhibitions locally and in Europe, I began a new series of paintings in 2016, where some of the forms were based on the fabric work and the collages I was making at the time. 

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