ARTWORK
Thanks for joining me here. I'm still a novice painter and have a lot to learn about creating geometric patterns. I'm focusing on the path to continue to learn and grow, and feel so inspired by this process. A chosen pattern usually just appears as interesting and something I want to study. Sometimes it even manifests by itself. Taking online classes or watching videos is also a great way to learn how to construct a pattern. I often study architecture in books and explore on my own in a more intuitive way.
I love deconstructing a pattern to find the simpler tessellated pattern hiding underneath the complexity.
Hopefully you feel inspired to create geometric art.
EXPLORATIONS
This section provides information about some of my favorite explorations in geometric artwork.
Teal Connection
This 10-fold pattern was drawn many times and in many different colors. I created this pattern more than any other pattern. It became a quiet form of practice meditation.
The Twins
These two pieces were worked on simultaneously and they evolved together. One is a 10-fold pattern and the other is a 12-fold pattern. They both created a sense of connectedness to conscious well-being.
Looking Inward, then Outward
This was my first time creating a stencil and tessellating it. The underlying grid is a triangle that tessellated to create a 10-fold pattern. The pattern first became a window and then the radiant eye emerged one morning when I was looking at it trying to understand its identity. I used plastic sheeting to create the stencil.
Flaming petals
This was a fun exercise in practicing fluid non-linear motion.
Marrakech
Exploring Morrocan patterns in a study trip to Marrakech for a week in 2023.
Jagged Rumi Star
This was a difficult reconstruction of a pattern I found online and then tried to make myself. It's watercolor and felt tip pen.
6-fold magic
This is an exploration in texture. I used a combination of watercolor and Pearl Ex pigments to see what the effect would look like.
A birthday present for my sister
This was the biggest piece I had made by then. It's 12-fold rosettes tessellated with a combination of 4-fold and 3-fold linking shapes. The painting is in watercolor.
Gouache and gold leaf
This painting was difficult because it needed to be a lot bigger for the detail. It was also my first time using gold leaf. I found that pattern by taking an online class with Art of Islamic Pattern.
Fertility painting in Pearl Ex pigments
This was my first biomorphic painting after taking a class with Art of Islamic Pattern. For anyone that has gone through the process of getting pregnant, it can be stressful. There was a lot of that energy in my life at the time, especially worry, and this felt like it could somehow bring in good energy.
Blue is where teal meets maroon
This started off as a practice exercise but I liked the shape. It's a subform for a large combination of 3-fold and 4-fold shapes. This is how four 12-fold patterns can tesselate together with a 3-fold shape joining them. This is painted in watercolor on tea stained paper.
Experiment
I was playing with saturating the space with water and then adding the watercolor paints. This is painted in watercolor.
Nasrid birds of the Alhambra
I visited the Alhambra last year just to see the tile work in person and then I recreated these birds based on those pictures. This is painted in watercolor.
Large 6-fold on tessellated 6-fold patterns
I was experimenting with applying scale to add a 6-pointed start on top of two tessellated 6-fold patterns. It's painted in Pearl Ex pigments.
COMPLETED WORKS
This gallery shows finished artwork. I like to have a policy that if I sign it then I cannot change it. Otherwise, you can get in a mode of continuous edits.
EXPERIENCES
This section shares the artistic experience in action.
Biomorph in a rosette
This is a practice in adding a biomorphic design inside the space within a stronger geometric pattern.
10-fold conciousness
This is an experiment with 10-fold patterns. I was learning a lot about large language models at work, so this influenced the painting to become a connected network.
Cathedral window
This started off as a cathedral window and morphed into something of its own being.
Rumi star
This was an exercise in deconstructing a pattern and then remaking it. It's a tessellated 10-fold recursive star pattern.