Persian Carpet

November 2022

I've always loved vintage Persian carpets, it's the aged colours that captured my imagination as a child.  I can stare into the weave and see the colour go from faded to rich deep down into the woven threads. Just imagining the endless stories the rugs could tell if only they could. 

Whilst painting this collection a deep memory was triggered as I stared through the ridges and pits created by the dragging of the paint across the previously dried layer. Endless layers of colours applied with my palette knife, the hours and days of building the thousand upon thousands of paint marks reminded me of the thousand upon thousand of threads in the old Persian carpets i had wandered at as a child.  

Each painting so different yet has a similarity as they flow from one to another.