A Bit About This Painting... ( Dimensions 7.5 cm x 12 cm x 3 mm ) No 8

This painting already has string attached to the back for hanging.

This is a recent artwork from a new series of paintings that I started in 2016 entitled Gothic Psychedelic. This series of works are inspired by Gothic symbolism and patterns and textures in nature combined with bright expressionistic and lively colours.

This painting was made using UV neon pink paint that I make myself from special UV pigments, so the pink areas will glow up fluorescent under blue or UV ( ultra violet ) lighting.

This series I am making at the moment involves materials such as gold and silver leaf combined with bright colours and bold patterns to create layered environments and visual movement inspired by 1960's Optical Art ( art work and artists that used colours formed in intense and often geometric patterns to create visual movement and illusions of movement within artwork).

The bold black lines in these paintings were inspired by Gothic stained glass lead work and the stripes and check patterned areas were inspired by Op Art and psychedelic patterns and colours.

The flower shapes, leaves, bones and eyeballs and bird wings were inspired by Gothic horror style tattoo and jungle plants.

The way I use pattern in these Gothic Psychedelic art works is deliberately planned and involving colour theory methods to make the viewer's eye travel across and around the painting in certain ways.

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