NOLL ART

A derivitive of the Italian "rotondo" meaning round. It became a term for a cicular work of art during the Renaissance. As a design element it was applied to both painting and sculpture. Tondo form had its heydey in 15th century Florence, Italy, where Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Raphael designed multiple circular compositions.

Tondo form has always been appealing simply because it breaks with the tyranny of rectangles, a shape that dominates our lives. The circle is whole, complete, and void of sharp corners. It resonates balance, symetry, and serves as a spot of total focus.

Tondo form is perfect for Kaliedescopic paintings, blasts of color and shape, radiating from a detailed center. Mine are pure organic design, based on nature but not copying it. The process of creating Kaliedescopic paintings is lenghty and takes almost as long to draw it out as to paint it. These represent a type af highly controled abstraction, representing nothing other than organized shapes of color.