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An abstract painting featuring a symmetrical, kaleidoscopic arrangement of colourful blots. Vibrant red, blue, yellow and green shapes overlap across a white background.

Art: Daniel Eatock's kaleidoscopic new ink blot pen paintings are incredible!

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Date
17 June 2014

From what I can gather, these abstract paintings were made by placing the nibs of inky marker pens on top of a stack of paper. The result is an amazing blotted fusion of kaleidoscopic patterns and rainbow colours, which kind of looks like the psychedelic shapes butterfly wing’s make when seen through a microscope.

Daniel Eatock’s new pen paintings are in line with his incredibly witty and inventive style, and his new work also includes a tiny white paper clip cut out from paper, and an entirely perforated stamp, which Daniel made as a proposal for the Royal Mail. Looking through Daniel’s new work is always refreshingly surprising and unexpected, but one thing is consistently certain, it’s never a disappointment.

A colourful, symmetrical pattern created from overlapping blots of watercolour paint. Vibrant shades of red, blue, yellow and green repeat in a mirrored, kaleidoscopic arrangement.
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Daniel Eatock: Pen Painting, Scentless Apprentice

An abstract painting of a symmetrical, kaleidoscopic pattern made from vibrant dabs of watercolour. Bright reds, yellows, blues and greens overlap to create a mirrored, textile-like design.
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Daniel Eatock: Pen Painting, Polly

An abstract painting featuring a dense, symmetrical pattern of colourful paint splatters. The vibrant blots of red, blue, yellow and green overlap to create a kaleidoscopic effect against a white background.
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Daniel Eatock: Pen Painting, Sifting

An abstract painting of colourful, symmetrical blots of paint on a white background. The shapes are arranged in mirrored horizontal bands, transitioning from dense, overlapping washes of colour at the top to small, scattered dots at the bottom.
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Daniel Eatock: Pen Painting, Dive

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