Panel imaging
Panel Imaging,
such an odd name perhaps, to call a painting style and I'm sure I could add that almost everyone who is interested in art would want to ask why?
Just What Is Panel Imaging?
Given the fact that I coined the term myself and as it's associated with changing the face of art, then it's little wonder that other art lovers would want to know.
I use the term, 'Panel Imaging' to describe this style which I stumbled upon by accident while cutting sheets of plywood, which I then use for the canvas of my paintings. Panel Imaging describes exactly what happens when panels are used not only for the canvas, but also for the entire work. I have since found that this method and practice for me anyway is by far the most modern of modern styles.
One that follows in line with paintings that are painted on board to a given shape and then used for the purpose of stage props or the publicity of a show and the like. It's not a new idea and one that's been around for a very long time. Panel Imaging for me is when two or more, and to any number of irregular shaped panels, are joined together to form the canvas of a painting. This creates not only a truly unique boundary for the work, but also a multi-stepped dimension on the picture plane. The would be picture frame has now completely gone. With just the multi-sided arrangement of panels, art has now taken on a new transformation of presentation. It must surely lead to the ultimate freedom of expression for any painter's canvas.
Everything is now changed from yesterday's old-fashioned way of presenting a painting. However there will always be a variation on its theme.
My first attempt having drawn the subject onto the plywood was to cut around it to create the picture, but in doing so I found I had made it into a complete cut out. That was fine of course, but not what I really wanted. To my mind it would always remain just a cut out rather than a true work. For me to consider it as 'true art' it needed to fit into a background filling its own space as on a canvas with perspective, depth, and all the other characteristics, which make up the picture plane. These painterly qualities were missing as long as it remained a cut out.
A space had to be added, and in a way that left no doubt that the finished work remained.
Panel Imaging
I have somehow managed to do this now and you, the reader, will be able to see from the artwork shown on this webite, how this changed the picture plane.
The outer edges of a panel can be cut to any shape while other panels fixed to it can have different cutouts. These can be to a given shape or whatever the painter feels they should be like to complete the work. Still more panels, and again of any shape and size can be glued on top to form the subject matter in part or completely. It's endless as to how this is done. Everything is forever changing and only limited by the imagination of the artist.
Big sections to small pieces can be added wherever artistic input should take him. Also the number of levels or layers of panels, big or small can be used to express the mood of the finished work. This is a style, which is truly endless reaching out to ensure that each finished piece is an original in its own right. It's a challenging art form making it hard to reproduce a second likeness.
At this point in time I am using three ply mainly because my works are not so big. Should I at some time in the future wish to paint something much bigger, then it's an easy choice to step up and use four ply. Three ply is strong enough at this stage and gets its strength from the three layers. Using it for a work measuring say two meters would present no problems.
It's always in the hands of the artist. Imagination is the only key he will ever need. One thing that has not changed, a painting is still a painting. It still takes the time and imagination for an artist to produce his work. In the end he is happy to generate some semblance of pleasure.
Enjoy my Panel Imaging artwork on this website and I trust you will agree with me when I say that art is forever
A CHALLENGING AND CHANGING FORCE.