Acrylic with collage on cradled Ampersand hardboard, 14" x 11" x 7/8", no frame required, $120. Thank you for visiting my blog, your comments are appreciated and I will try to answer each in my stories about my work. To purchase please e-mail me.
These non-objective abstracts may in part evolve from the series I am doing of our pasture. I would like my work to flow from one piece to the next, one series to the next in a linear fashion because it would be more cohesive. But my development is more complex. These abstracts also come from a collaboration with my mother four years ago during the last period of her life. We used metalic acrylics on Ampersand boards. At that point her participation was more watching than actively painting. I am sure she would be tickled that I am adding layers over what was started at her side.
One of these collaborations is "About Red Oxide." Three days ago I cut into the painting and applied more layers of paint, texturing it with a net. I used rubbing sticks fallen from our trees as well as brushes. Often I put it on the floor to help me feel like a child again. I like to let my child out to play with the paint but that isn't always easy. We all have this child in us but as adults we have learned to supress it. This painting went through difficult stages where my adult judge said there was too much going on and I want it to have a single statement. In this frame of mind I can destroy distractions but my touch of child's whimsy is threatened. Then it is good to leave the painting and work on another for awhile.
2 comments:
That was very interesting on your process. I know your mother would have been delighted. She was such an encourager and believe in your art and you. She was a neat lady.
Thanks rain. I do appreciate her more now than ever.
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