My “Pointillism Grid Series” of paintings and digital prints embodies an exploration into how individual squares of color can blend to create a whole – much like the small, distinct points of color in a Pointillist’s painting blend to form an image.

Unlike a Pointillist such as Georges Seurat, who loosely applied dots of paint with a brush, I create each “packet” of color within a grid, which is true to my hardedge abstractionist style.

By creating squares of carefully chosen colors close to each other, these paintings and prints create new colors in the viewer’s perception that don’t actually exist on the surface of the piece. The light reflected by each separate square of color mixes in the viewer’s eyes and mind with these new colors. This is a process known as additive mixing.

This is a new series for me, and I have just a few completed paintings. I currently have several works in progress, so please stop back for images of my new acrylics.  Scroll down for the digital Giclee prints that are available in the Pointillism Grid Series. Learn more about my other series of works: Asterism Series, which refers to the “X” that appears to the eye — but does not exist in the painting — and occurs when contiguous colors interact from light to dark or dark to light. In addition, my Interreticulation Series explores the effects created when a grid of interlacing lines – or reticulation – interacts with a layer of geometric shapes of varying colors.

Original Paintings