Geometric paintings informed by Ann Kopka’s fascination with the relationships between geometry, design and structures found in both urban and natural landscapes. Her colourful vibrant paintings explore the connections between colour and rhythm, structure and scale, repetition, and pattern. Ann’s paintings ‘grow’ through the subtle application of multiple layers of vivid acrylic colour. Colour is employed not to be representational but to convey light and energy, emphasise the circulation of movement and bind the network of structures together into a coherent picture. The slow buildup of vibrant saturated surfaces results in paintings that can have an illusion of depth sometimes with distinctive three-dimensional qualities, contradicting the defining flatness of abstract art and yet in art historical terms allude to analytical cubism, constructivism, op-art, and geometric abstraction.
