Featured Artist
Paul J Collins
Paul J Collins creates abstract work with a quiet confidence, guided by intuition, memory, and experimentation. His compositions are straightforward yet thoughtfully constructed, using shape, line, and color to create work that feels visually striking, mentally engaging, and refreshingly unforced.
Title: Memory
Medium: Computer-Aided Design
Curator Note
2nd Place Winner of the Bold Colors Art Competition
As the 2nd Place winner of the Bold Colors Art Competition, Paul J Collins’s Memories draws viewers in through its sense of balance, clarity, and quiet confidence. Created through computer-aided design, the work feels both playful and considered, using shape, line, and color in a way that is visually engaging, thoughtful, and refreshingly direct.
About the Work
Memory
The creation of this piece was inspired by memorable experiences in my childhood years of pleasant family summer holidays spent on England’s south coast and the visual memories of the numerous seafront stores bursting with colourful beach goods and holiday souvenirs. I chose to use a limited palette of red, yellow and blue for the composition, inspired by one of my favourite contemporary artists – Piet Mondrian, who was considered to be one of the most influential figures in the development of abstract art in the early 20th century. The work was created in three stages. I initially made some sketches on paper prior to using computer drawing software to create a line drawing which was then blocked in with my chosen colours. Simplicity is the main key to the work which has a meaningful narrative to me but also invites the viewer to engage with different elements of the composition to evoke emotions and stories that may be personal to them.
