Bookend 1
Acrylic and spray paint on linen, 2025
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Private Collection
Bookend yellow chasm
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2025
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Collection Art Bank
Bookend DSZ1087
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Bookend 025
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Collection Art Bank
Bookend 707
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Collection Art Bank
Bookend in yellow
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Bookend 572 c.2
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Bookend 297
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Collection Art Bank
Bookend 152
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Collection Art Bank
Bookend U/301
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Collection Art Bank
Bookend JN6542
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Bookend 282
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Bookend 572
Acrylic on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Bookend plum depth
Acrylic on canvas, 2026
51.0 x 40.5 cm
Bookends
The Bookend paintings are imagined and improvised in the studio. I painted the Bookends in parallel with the Covers, first preparing grisaille silhouettes using spray paint and then drawing directly from the palette of particular fades to layer different colours. One thing dries while another is revised, removing and returning, walking back and forth. There is a search occurring within the works. Overall, many of these works have a sense of letting the books go and allowing the surface incident to simply arrive. As such, the Bookend paintings anchor the recent Cover paintings with an understanding of how painted time can relate to faded time.