Colour Constructions: Michael Whetman: Six Shapes

All of the constructions shown on this site are visually related to their outdoor settings. Most of them are view either in our orchard, near Penryn, Cornwall, England, or at the Bucks Head House Garden, near Constantine, Cornwall. We’d be very pleased to show you! Get in touch by e-mail or telephone.

The constructions fall into six loose categories, ordered from most recent to earliest. Click on an image for more examples. [The homepage image is of a Pole construction called Quartet].

Perceptual Loops. These spatial drawings are my current work. Perceptual Loops

Arcs. The arcs may stand up, hang down or run across the ground.

Inventions. These constructions play colours and forms against one another, like counterpoint.

Nannorrhops. The name refers to a small bush of unspecified size and shape. These constructions often bear some loose resemblance to plants in their surroundings, enough to make a viewer aware of a very sharp contrast.

Poles. The poles are taller than viewers, and move in response to air currents. There are a few single poles, but more usually they are in groups of three or more.

Folds. Folds lie on the ground, at a 90^o angle from the way most of us look at, say, plants…