Ian Davenport

It is in some respects an unusual process that Ian Davenport (1966, United Kingdom) favors to create his work. Instead of applying paint to the surface using the traditional brush, Davenport uses less expected applicators such as syringes. Davenport lets the paint drip down from the needle onto an aluminum or stainless-steel panel, the bottom of which has been deliberately dented to allow rivulets of paint to converge and collect into pools of paint at the base of what becomes the painting. By using a syringe, Davenport is freed up to focus his energies more on the colors and the sequences in which they are applied, rather than on the paint and its flow.