Vignette
Vignette
Botanical colour on gesso on panel.
13.9 x 23.1
2022
Signed and titled on reverse
Shipping to be arranged separately and framing options available.
This work furthers my use of botanical colour.
For a number of years, I lived in an ancient eighty-acre Welsh oak woodland, off-grid. I was utterly immersed in the experience of being in the woodland.
It was here that I discovered that ink could be made using oak galls and started exploring the possibilities of this very luxurious and sensual material – nick-named ink of Kings, Poets and Monks.
I wanted to make work ‘of the woodland’, I explored the process and chemistry of making the ink and thereby developed my own technique of making and using it. I find the oak gall ink very exciting and with the techniques that I have discovered am looking to create a shimmer, a vibration through using close tones, using the support as light source as well as colour experience.
I am intrigued by the idea that opposites are always present and attempt to paint contradictions of personality and situation. I am interested in differences of rhythm, tempo and repetition, and how they produce irregularity in marks, layers; also colours and their inherent instability.
All these contradict the inherent flatness of paintings and this is where I seek to explore the possibilities and impossibilities of expressing these liminal moments in paint.
This work is currently unframed. We can discuss framing the work with a simple white painted wooden band to protect it.
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