Jeffrey Simmons Studio

larger multipart watercolors 2010-2014

A painting across ten sheets of paper, composed of small gradient circles, some darker and some lighter, depicting the outline of a large circle.
Circuit 2010. Watercolor on paper. 10 sheets, 5 x 13 inches each, 26.25 x 26.25 inches total. Private collection.
An abstract watercolor painting, on fifteen sheets of paper, depicting a symmetrical form of overlapping ellipses, composed of small gradient circles.
Palindrome I 2012. Watercolor on paper. 15 sheets, 15 x 6.25 inches each, 45.5 x 32.25 inches total. Greg Kucera Gallery, Inc., Seattle, Washington.
An abstract watercolor painting, on ten sheets of paper, depicting a symmetrical form of overlapping ellipses, composed of small gradient circles.
Palindrome II 2012. Watercolor on paper. 10 sheets, 15 x 6.25 inches each, 34.25 x 36 inches total. Private collection.
An abstract watercolor painting, on ten sheets of paper, depicting a symmetrical form of overlapping ellipses, composed of small gradient circles.
Palindrome III 2012. Watercolor on paper. 10 sheets, 5 x 13 inches each, 26.25 x 26.25 inches total. Seattle Public Utilities’ Collection, Seattle, Washington.
The outline of a figure-eight form composed of overlapping circles in magenta, blue, and yellow.
Hourglass Loop 2013. Watercolor on paper. Nine sheets, 8.25 x 20 inches each, 77 x 20 inches total.
The outline of a wavy, abstract, enclosed form painted across seven sheets, vertically stacked, composed of circles painted in different colors.
Discordant Figure 2013. Watercolor on paper. Seven sheets, 9 5/8 x 22 inches, 70 x 22 inches assembled.
The outline of a wavy, enclosed shape, composed of circles, painted across eight sheets of paper. Each sheet is painted using a different color.
Serpentine Miner 2014. Watercolor on paper. Eight sheets: 9 5/8 x 22 inches, 79 3/4 x 22 inches assembled.
Sixteen sheets of watercolor paper, each painted with a single, circular, multicolored gradient form, light on the outside growing progressively darker towards the center, with a hard-edge central unpainted white circle in the middle of each. All of the forms use the same colors, but all are different, as is the color of the white paper from sheet to sheet.
Whisper Chamber 2014. Watercolor on paper. 16 parts, each 14.25 x 10 inches.