These paintings are made out of large scale paint skins that I have cut and re-upholstered onto furniture. This slipper chair was the hardest to make as it required the most covering, and ended up a lot heavier than the original chair. I really like the concept of taking painting away from its traditional boundaries and the idea of jumping between both painting and sculpture. The most satisfying thing about these paintings for me is how free and unrestricted the skins were to make and how controlled and tailored they look when crafted onto these furniture pieces. For a lot of people the concept of a chair or a table being a painting and rendered nonfunctional is beyond them, but I think it makes people more aware of the craft involved in everyday objects and how they can be used and manipulated into being pieces of fine art.
These are images of the initial process. Originally i had planned for these skins to be paint alone, but on such a large scale I had to address some technical issues and ended up casting these skins onto canvas to make it more durable in the second stage of covering the furniture.
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