geometry – Sally Wakelin – Studies in Creativity

Low Relief Construction

A whole series of my work has been inspired by a drawing of my father’s from 30 years ago. His original was based on visually extracting shapes from a classic Tumbling Blocks schema used in drawing, painting, patchwork and many other formats.

This is his drawing on paper in ink and two thicknesses of line.

I have made a number of drawn versions of my own.

A sketched and cut version in heavy water-colour paper.

A sketched drawing in white crayon on water-coloured paper.

After many other versions in drawing, painting and cutting I have now embarked on a low relief version in painted plywood. The pieces were cut out usung a tiny reciprocating jig-saw that my mother owned from the mid ’80s.

Here are some of the stages I have passed through. Hopefully tomorrow it will be finished.

Drawn out with pencil and set square, then cut out with the jigsaw

The complete design incised into the backboard

Laying out the pieces and deciding how far away from the surface they should sit.

Some of the pieces with spacers glued to the back

Simplified

Art

This drawing is based on stacked cubes, I had been intending to draw the cube structure in red but I like it better with all reference to the cubes omitted.

Watercolour paper and black ink 40×40 cm