Sesselmann Gallery, Sawyers Gully — Sesselmann & Cannon
pigment and binder on board
The work in this exhibition is the result of an investigation into the making and character of paint made from pigment and polymer-binder.
As a beginning, the timber surface is lovingly prepared — to a high, smooth ground.
Due to the urgency of the process, once created, the paint is applied within a very small window of time. Using a range of individual painterly techniques marks are created with each successive colour, expressed directly in the moment. Each mark has its own story to tell, whether it expresses itself in a beginning, an end, or something left intentionally open-ended. Each colour plays with the next, revealing the pigments innate transparency or opaqueness. Layers are tenderly laboured over and refined, marks erased or left to reveal, colours are superimposed.
I make. I paint. I erase. I remake.
As an improvisor, I love the surprise and wonder that can occur with the imperfection of the mark made, tracing the movement of urgent actions/gestures when applying the fickle paint to the surface. As a formalist I have a deep fascination for the qualities of different colours and mixes that are made colour on colour.
One plays off the other and the effect is often something like controlled chaos. It is an interesting duality.
pigment and binder on board
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