ABOUTBack to paint - a Post-digital artist.Floris van Zyl (14 September 1971 – ) is a South African Expressionist painter who has studied graphic design in the early 90's, built his own design agency over 17 years and returned to paint full time in 2010. In just over 5 years he created more than 400 artworks, including around 200 oil paintings, most of them in the last three years of his art career. They have sold internationally and include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold, symbolic colours, and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork.
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In the last months he has been experimenting with paint on acrylic glass (in chemical terms, polymethyl methacrylate, or PMMA for short) as a surface medium for painting.
"I was looking for something ultra smooth that would not break under pressure, would not absorb moisture, wobble and deform like board, stretch like canvas, or shatter and crack like glass. I found, trying to clean my acrylic mixing palette, that paint sticks to acrylic and has to be removed with paint stripper or dissolved by using lacquer thinners to get it off the surface." Acrylic glass allows him a wonderful new technique, to work fast, thin to thick, wipe away and mix colours on the surface. It is much lighter than glass, much more durable and is more easily permeated by light. It does not yellow over time and filters UV radiation. It is simple to process, easy to care for, and completely recyclable. PMMA can be dyed any color, conducts light in transparent varieties, and is of optically ultrapure quality. "In effect, I'm mixing paint on the surface of the actual artwork, the mixing palette becomes the artwork." |
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