Martin Thompson's drawings represent the evolution,
over his lifetime, of a graphic system that creates order,
pattern and logic in the face of the random, the chaotic and
the unreliable.
Martin's drawings are games of positive and negative pattern
making, a teasing marriage of the finest technique and control
with the perfection of mathematics and geometry.
Martin was born in Wellington and is well recognised around
the character-filled city-fringe. He is a solitary man, a
man with a mission.
His materials are graph paper and fine point ink making pens.
His technique is to meticulously colour in rows of tiny squares,
so that sequences combine to form complex quilts, radiating
mandalas, or patterns of pixilated tv static.
There is no testing, no trial runs. All the calculations
occur in Martin's mind's eye and appear miraculously and with
mechanical certainty on the page. |
