Improvisation with Red Spot

About Improvisation with Red Spot

This is a unique contemporary abstract monoprint, its colors inspired by nature.

This composition by master colorist Paul Fournier is one of a kind. This monoprint was created by using a tool to force paint through a fine screen directly onto the paper. Fournier’s artwork is a reflection of the joy he finds in the beauty of nature. He works intuitively, without a sketch. This cheerful composition celebrates color--yellows, blues, purple, orange, and pink rendered in expressive form with calligraphic lines and markings. A single red dot, a focal point draws the eye.

“As a child, I would catch these butterflies, ants, put them in jars and just watch them. It was a wonderful collection of colour…gorgeous.” Paul Fournier

“No matter how potent the allusion, Fournier, as a highly intuitive artist with a profound belief in the expressive power of his materials…” Karen Wilkin, Art Critic

Paul Fournier was born during the Great Depression in Simcoe, Ontario. He first studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1959 and went on to study printmaking at McMaster University in Hamilton in 1967. Fournier also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from McMaster in 1996 where he’d also been the artist in residence. During a career that spans six decades, Fournier has had solo exhibitions in several Canadian cities and in the U.S. His work is held in private collections in North and South America, and Europe. Public collections include the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Sculpture Garden in Washington and the Tate Museum in London.