Statement
As a young artist, I lived in England, where I was deeply inspired by the terrain and the mystery of what lay beneath it. Earthworks, standing stones, glyphs and their forgotten meaning, what lies just below the surface, eventually evolved into a dynamic dance with the sky above. My sky paintings were meant to evoke a visceral response, symphonic in feeling. Pouring and pushing diluted acrylic paint into raw wet linen yielded atmospheric skies, where the play of light on the painting’s surface can act similarly to how light bounces within a billowing cloud.
My return to abstraction was prompted by the use of cold wax medium which gives a luscious body to the paint, and this allows for all kinds of surface texture, layering, and a clean interplay of color. The physicality of the paint brings me back to my early fascination with the lay of the land, archaeology , the fragility yet durability of long-buried objects created by forgotten civilizations, just as digging into the painting’s surface can unearth surprises, a mysterious topography. What are those tracks, where do they lead, and what lies beneath them?
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