Matthew Hawtin

 

 

 







Torqued Paintings 10-11

In the fall of 2010 I returned to Windsor, Canada to continue work on the Torqued Panels. Back in a familiar studio I also began work on two new Torqued Paintings, to keep busy while the panels were being produced and as a way to re-evaluate and re-investigate the original paintings. I think working on these pieces enabled me to clarify the direction I eventually decided to take with the Torqued Panels, something that wasn’t exactly clear while I producing the new work.

Also at this time I received a private commission for a Torqued Painting. The original piece, The notion of dread rather than anticipation, was actually produced in 1998 but had some surface damage, thus I was asked, and accepted to re-make the work exactly as before. The work was produced at the beginning of 2011 and the finished piece was packaged and shipped to Atherton, CA, where it now resides.

New directions for the Torqued Paintings will continue to be developed later this year alongside the Torqued Panels.

Torqued Paintings 10-11