Peter Halley

Peter Halley was an artist who I looked at while making my prints. His work interests me as it contains powerful, vivid colours and he uses a variety of different geometric shapes, that in some pieces, are positioned in a logical order and in others, a more deceivingly spontaneous way.

As well as this, he has created a series of paintings on the side of broken stones. This created an intriguing contrast between the quality of line he used in his painting and the coarse rock edge it was painted onto.

Halley also concentrates on creating a conversation through his pieces by using geometry. When asked if he felt trapped in his geometry he replied,

"Not so much actually. The idea of what can be done with that language interests me. Just as in Picasso, language is a closed set, and yet he can infinitely reassociate things to make them into different kinds of signs. I am trying to do that with a far more limited set of signs". 

In addition, Halley suggested that what interests him is the way his work progresses and changes through the use of repetition.

After looking at Halley's work it has influenced me to create something that is very expressive and bold but at the same time calculate it and by using repetition and geometry maybe discover a way that my work could progress.