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All images and content of this website are Copyright © 2003 - 2008 Tom Cartmill. All rights reserved.
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Strata IV mixed media on board 81x61cm © 2004 Tom Cartmill collection of Abacus plc
Strata I mixed media on board 81x61cm © 2004 Tom Cartmill
Strata III mixed media on board 81x61cm © 2004 Tom Cartmill private collection
Strata XXI mixed media on board 62x61cm © 2004 Tom Cartmill
Strata XII
mixed media on board
23x23cm
© 2004 Tom Cartmill
about the strata series
The paintings in the 'Strata Series' are multi-textured and multi-layered. Initially built up with numerous layers of gesso, at differing depths, layer after layer of paint is then applied. I use a combination of different paints,contrasting their varying properties. The juxtaposition of different materials and textures is an essential part of my practice. My method of working also involves the making of my own paints, where I am able to saturate a medium with pigment, and apply it over or alongside, factory made paints.
The paintings evolve slowly, layer upon layer. Some colours and motifs are painted over, no longer seen. Others are visible through successive coats of paint, having been rubbed through, scraped, worn away. These traces and suggestions of former layers are evidence of events from an earlier time in a painting's past and of the progression towards its resolution.
The title for this series is a thematic key to the work. It indicates the physical process of making the paintings,as described above, and the clear geological reference relates to the fact that the paintings are also about the accretion of time and experience.