Oil Paintings – successive layers of paint swept away with household brushes
Let Your Mind Run (Thank You Deena), 120cm x 80cm,
oil on canvas 2022

oil on canvas, 70*55 cm
For this series of paintings, I came up with a technique of sweeping successive layers of paint with a broom when the canvas is lying flat on the floor; then, back on the wall, I add more paint and smudge the excess with household brushes until an image emerges.
Each painting has four layers or more, which give depth to the texture of the image. In addition, the brush-strokes remain visible and accentuate the woven aspect of the canvas, a nod to my textile days…
I like to think that these paintings play with the birth and disappearance of an image.
A Vague Memory, 2019
Oil on canvas, 150*180 cmThe Funeral, 2022
Three III, 2019
Oil on canvas, 160*120 cmThree I, 2019
Oil on canvas, 160*120 cmThe Feast, 2017
Oil on canvas, 160*120 cmThe Lake II, 2018
Oil on canvas, 160*120 cmThe Bay of Certitudes, 2017
Oil on canvas, 100*140 cmThree II, 2019
Oil on canvas, 140*105 cmRain II, 2016
Oil on canvas, 100*140 cmRain, 2016
Oil on canvas, 90*120 cm
Untitled, 2018
Oil on canvas, 160*120 cmThe Lake, 2016
Oil on canvas, 90*120 cmNo Title Yet, 2016
Oil on canvas, 90*120 cm
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