Raeburn

Media: Oil on canvas

Year: 2012

Collection: QR Code Paintings

Size (H x W): 90cm x 90cm (2 ft 11 ins x 2 ft 11 ins)

Scannable, very cool and so 2012. I began exploring QR codes in 2011 initially to use them to try to help advertise my Poem of Ecstasy exhibition; however, the more I learned about them, the more excited I became about these little squares.

I wondered if I could create large QR paintings that could scan? I spent most of the year in the studio with a paint brush in one hand and my smartphone in the other as I’d have to scan the paintings after changes and additions to ensure they still ‘worked’. I also started incorporating 30% error correction into the codes so I could be quite creative with the application of thick, impasto paint.