Tom Wilmott
At least things can't get any worse.
The focus of these paintings is a single mark. Maintaining the production criteria set out at the start of the series Preachin' in a language that's completely new, the intention is to further distil the act of painting and take the opportunity to appreciate a brush stroke on its own merits. To enjoy the quality and sensation of moving one type of paint across, over or through another, or simply against an unpainted support alone.
It is a developement of two previous ideas; A progression on the Preachin' series, shifting attention away from the completely covered, uniformly coloured surface by either adding to it or omitting it completely and an abstraction of a series I made in 2008/9 in which I sought to describe a figurative object - a bar of soap, using a single mark painted in oil and gloss, wet on wet.
At least things can't get any worse. 1.2 XVII
2014
Acrylic, gloss & emulsion on canvas
18.0cm diameter
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 XVI
2014
Oil on board
35.1 x 27.4cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 XV
2014
Oil on board
35.1 x 27.4cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 XIV
2014
Oil on board
35.1 x 27.4cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 XIII
2014
Acrylic & varnish on board
15.2 x 10.0cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 XII
2014
Emulsion & acrylic on board
15.2 x 10.0cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 XI
2014
Emulsion & acrylic on board
15.2 x 10.0cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 X
2014
Ink & emulsion on board
10.0 x 15.2cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 IX
2014
Gloss & acrylic on board
10.0 x 15.2cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 VIII
2014
Emulsion on board
15.2 x 10.0cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 VII
2014
Oil on canvas
20.3 x 25.5cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 VI
2014
Oil & emulsion on canvas
25.5 x 20.3cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 V
2014
Emulsion on canvas
25.5 x 20.3cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 IV
2014
Oil & gloss on canvas
20.4 x 28.0cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.2 III
2014
Acrylic & emulsion on canvas
28.0 x 20.4cm
At least things can't get any worse. 1.2 II
2014
Oil & gloss on canvas
25.3 x 31.3cm
At least things can't get any worse. 1.2 I
2014
Acrylic & emulsion on canvas
18.0cm diameter
At least things can't get any worse 1.3.VI
2014
Watercolour and oil on paper
29.8 x 22.3cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.3.V
2014
Watercolour and oil on paper
29.8 x 22.3cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.3.IV
2014
Watercolour and oil on paper
29.8 x 22.3cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.3.III
2014
Watercolour and oil on paper
29.8 x 22.3cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.3.II
2014
Watercolour and oil on paper
29.8 x 22.3cm
At least things can't get any worse 1.3.I
2014
Watercolour and oil on paper
29.8 x 22.3cm