Gayle Cole - Painting Archives

Archives - Paintings  (1973 - 1999)

Over many years, this long body of work has changed and evolved through multiple styles, approaches, and subject matter.  These archive pages represent examples of work which have evolved through the process of time and practice.  Certain considerations have emerged as consistent concerns:

>   Formal characteristics are the drivers in the development of the work.  The idea of the canvas as a flat plane with a shallow, illusionistic space operates both in the purely abstract compositions, as well as those with clear or implied representational images.

>   Representation and abstraction are both explored, sometimes separately, but sometimes within the same piece.  Invention and improvisation is central in forming the images.

 >   Color is central to the work.  The fact of the paint itself, also becomes a player on the surface, increasingly, as the work evolves.

>   Ideas and meanings develop over time in the work --- notions of "reality and illusion", our place in the larger "oneness of things", and references to nature and the processes within nature.

Selected examples of paintings, done over a chronological time period, are included in these separate archive sections.

Dreaming the Patterns of the Universe,  1986,  acrylic on canvas,  72 x 96 inches