Artist Research: Jason Martin; Painting and sculpture as one.

Jason Martin: Painting as Sculpture

"Trained as a painter in oil and acrylic, Martin began manipulating his chosen material in the early 1990s, dragging, scraping, combing, raking and squeegeeing paint across the surfaces of his canvases and aluminium panels until their edges bled colour and the surfaces picked up textures, gestures and happenstance along the way."

"Jason Martin effects oscillations between sculpture and painting, with the vigour of action painting but a controlled hand. He is perhaps best known for his monochromatic paintings, where layers of oil or acrylic gel are dragged across hard surfaces such as aluminium, stainless steel or Plexiglas with a fine, comb-like piece of metal or board in one movement, often repeated many times."
http://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/jason-martin-painting-as-sculpture

Mais-uma, 2013

Martin Zocalo, 2013

Rijks, 2013

• Initially reading about Martin's process and materials he uses, it connects directly to mine. 'Squeegeeing paint' across the surface of canvas and metals to pick up textures that happen along the way, is a good way to describe how I have chosen to paint. 

• Looking at his artwork it really resembles what I desire and value in art. The details, the metallic approach and high shine affect. The paint is turned sculptural particularly in Riijks, 2013, by the sheer amount of paint on the surface. 

• Comparing Martin to Marchand (an artist researched previously) both of their works resemble this mixture of 3D sculptural form on 2D board or canvas - to be viewed on the wall. This mixture of both sculpture and painting works by being a sculptural form placed on the context of a wall, so the concept of context is important for these artists works. When it comes to the placement of my own work within the exhibition, I want my sculptural pieces on the wall, and my more 2D paintings on the floor to confuse the viewer. 

Further development / experimentation 

• The colours in this piece are not important. High viscosity acrylic is thick enough to create texture. 
• Dragging the paint brush across each way to create a Criss-cross pattern can also be created with the ink roller, just using thicker paint. 
• Varnishing the finished painting using a varnish to create a high shine affect.