Lou Storey Paintings- The Process

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Lou Storey’s acrylic paintings incorporate original hand casted three-dimensional elements into a two-dimensional painting field. All of the dimensional cast vinyl elements are made in multiple from rubber molds of shapes and letters sculpted by the artist.  The cast shapes are imbedded into the paintings surface. The artist applies thick layers of acrylic and builds up the paintings surface using various plastic mediums. The artist often scores and marks the surface and also pipes acrylic lines and shapes using a pastry bag. While the artist’s surface technique and color pallet remains a constant over time, his ongoing exploration of topics relevant to his daily life offer an ever changing and vibrant context for his art. The artist writes:

“Years ago I noticed that certain shapes and line patterns repeated over and over in many of my drawings and paintings. I also noticed that they seemed to pop out from the surface. I made note of the various repetitions (shapes that suggested eggs, lightening, birds, swirls, stars, sunbursts, etc) and made them into clay forms that I then used to make rubber molds of so I could make many copies. I also began to put words into my paintings, so I made various three-dimensional alphabets.  Over the last two decades, using this growing inventory of dimensional shapes and letters, I have built up a personal vocabulary of icons that remain an intrinsic part of my artwork.”