Hommage to Eugenia

A little under seven months after my first artwork, a chance encounter with painting, this is my largest artwork to date, double the size of the earlier largest. I am fascinated by how I went from mere 7" by 9" to now 60" by 96". The sky is truly the limit!

From a style point of view, it follows on my 'Awakening' collection ~ an initial layer of Liquitex Professional Flexible Modelling Paste for texture, a second layer of block colours for contrast and depth and a third and top layer of 'soul' expression, combining a 'big picture' experience with the opportunity for a detail reveal, inch by inch ~ both far and near.

Its title 'Hommage to Eugenia' is apt, for Eugenia Gajardo inspires my artwork so significantly. It is with her artwork that I fell in love with abstract expressionism. It is with her late coming to painting that I saw a ray of possibility for me to paint. And it is now with how graciously she embraces both life and death that I explore both themes.

Thank you, Eugenia