“Love Cubes” A series of abstract oil paintings by
Brisbane-based painter Carolyn Morgan

Abstract Oil Painting called "Spirit" by Carolyn Morgan

"Spirit" is painted in oil on a mounted timber panel 410mm high x 510mm wide, ready for float framing.

“The moment paint becomes free to accentuate its quality as a colour and not just act as, for example, a flesh tone colouring an object, it gains an independence never before known in painting. The entire intensity, radiance, and spatiality of that patch of colour can now act upon the viewer.” Dietmar Elger Author “Abstract Art”

Abstract Oil Painting called "Soul" by Carolyn Morgan

"Soul" is painted in oil on a mounted timber panel 450mm high x 600mm wide, ready for float framing.

“These works are constructs made up of lines, surfaces, forms and colours that go beyond the human and attain the infinite and eternal. They reject our egotism.” Hans Arp

Abstract Oil Painting called "Self" by Carolyn Morgan

"Self" is painted in oil on a mounted timber panel 410mm high x 510mm wide, ready for float framing.

“We saw the surface of the canvas ceases to be a picture and turns into a structure round which we must circle, looking at it from all sides, peering down from above, investigating from below” Ed Lissitzky

Abstract Oil Painting called "Persona" by Carolyn Morgan

"Persona" is painted in oil on a mounted timber panel 450mm high x 600mm wide, ready for float framing.

“The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore the object must be eliminated from the picture” Piet Mondrian

Abstract Oil Painting called "Psyche" by Carolyn Morgan

"Psyche" is painted in oil on a mounted timber panel 410mm high x 510mm wide, ready for float framing.

“My ‘Spanish Elegies’ are free associations. Black is death, white is life…The ’Spanish Elergies’ are not political, but my insistence that a terrible death happened that should not be forgot. They are as eloquent as I could make them” Robert Motherwell

Abstract Oil Painting called "Essence" by Carolyn Morgan

"Essence" is painted in oil on a mounted timber panel 450mm high x 600mm wide, ready for float framing.

“The thing that a person who wants to explore painting naturally reflects: ‘How can I in my work be most expressive? Then the forms develop” Franz Kline

Abstract Oil Painting called "Mind" by Carolyn Morgan

"Mind" is painted in oil on a mounted timber panel 450mm high x 300mm wide, ready for float framing.

“I take a colour like I bite into an apple or shake my friend’s hand” Emil Schumacher

Abstract Oil Painting called "Identity" by Carolyn Morgan

"Identity" is painted in oil on a mounted timber panel 410mm high x 510mm wide, ready for float framing.

“Abstract painting must be as real as those created by the sixteenth-century Italians” Frank Stella

Abstract Oil Painting called "Being" by Carolyn Morgan

"Being" is painted in oil on a mounted timber panel 450mm high x 600mm wide, ready for float framing.

“Blue is the male principle, severe and spiritual. Yellow is the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two” Franz Marc

These abstract paintings are about love and centered around the recurring theme of a transparent cube. The cube symbolises the ever-changing nature of "love" and “personal space”, while the kite is about “personal freedom”. The river symbolises “life”, while circles of various kinds stand for “family”. Swift lines within a shape suggest the gift of “silence”. Colours used range from saturated to desaturated and cool to warm. There is also a suggestion of translucent and floating areas for “change”.