Jonathan Parsons – Nova

A celestial event producing a sudden bright ‘new’ star that eventually fades away to obscurity. This painting plays with variable optics and text as a poetic analogy. Opaque black underpainting is textured over with a matrix grid of impasto dots. This is thinly overpainted with chaotic and meandering pseudo gestural brush marks of interference colour, which appears red when seen head on, but white or faintly green when viewed obliquely or in thick accumulations. Specific patterns of the dot matrix blobs were sliced off to form the letters, which were reapplied with profoundly dark, non-reflective ‘Black 4.0’ acrylic paint.