Summer Jam is a really upbeat and vibrant piece of abstract art. I used a very lightweight and complimentary palette of colours and enjoyed mixing some of them directly on the canvas. In many ways I wanted to demonstrate a love of being warm and show it in a painting. Though it is rare for me to offer any kind of moral standing on my work I feel that the feelings that Summer Jam gives me is accurate of the reasons why I painted it in the first place – if that makes some sense. All the colours and tones I associate with warm, sunny weather are here in abundance and I cannot help but smile and feel safe and content when I look at it.
Summer Jam is painted using industrial grade enamel gloss paints thinned to varying degrees of consistencies and viscosity and then applied using an assortment of tools I have created for moving paints around the canvas. In some areas I have used undiluted enamel paints to add some extra physical texture to the painting. The piece measures 1000mm x 1000mm x 38mm.