I started painting tricycles nearly a decade ago.
Very early on in my fine arts program there was a project where we had to select an object as an idea and work with it over and over, repeating the image in different styles, mediums and formats. A friend had a fantastic ancient tricycle and it just resonated with me. I painted it in a classic realist manner, but peeled away all the surrounding imagery and focused on the tricycle alone in a straight-forward visual language stuck with me and never left.
Tricycle XIV
36″ x 30″ — Oil/Canvas — 2009
• SOLD
Two Tricycles
20″ x 40″ — Oil/Canvas — 2009
• SOLD
Beautiful!
Hi! Christopher Stott,
Both of these paintings of the Tricycles are very…nice Thanks, for sharing.
DeeDee ;-D
Wow. Your paintings are definitely ones I would want to press my nose into should I ever see them in person.
Both of these are awesome! Really like how you’ve played with the sense of space in the compositions…the removal of the baseline in the bottom one really speaks to me…Childhood/endless possibilities…
However,the top one w/ shallow space works too…the freedom offered by the tricycle to “escape”…
I dig all your work Chris, but these two are superb!
Btw, congrats on the show!
Really nice work! I appreciate your subjects and the graphic qualities of the pieces. YOu have a great sense for use of positive and negative space. I enjoyed discovering your blog!