The Rosey Pallid Project - ongoing
With this particular series of paintings, entitled The Rosey Pallid Project - initiated in 2005, I have been focusing on methods of abstraction and non-objectivity. It is the intuitive gestures, the departure from representational accuracy, found within the processes of abstract painting that serve as the vehicle for my creating otherworldly representations (i.e. fantastical creatures and, somewhat grotesque monsters). Consequential, these works may be categorized somewhere between colour abstractions and representations of surreal realms inhabited by monsters.
My paintings investigate the intuitive processes of painting, more subjective methods, where action/reaction and fantasy are of great importance. My process, in particular, initiates with the application of intuitive brush strokes onto a canvas; I close my eyes and scribble onto the canvas establishing a series of non-objective marks to be accentuated upon with thicker, bolder strokes of paint. In this process of accentuation I have constructed a game, one where I am constantly searching for forms or creatures within the series of marks. Upon noticing such creatures, I can then describe them further by, for instance, adding eyes. I consider this approach to painting as being similar to the childhood game of searching for and then emphasizing discovered forms within a series of doodling lines.
The imagined creature-monsters, their googly-eyes and snouts, employ both playful and sinister or grotesque qualities as a means for the evocation of humor as well as fear. The representational components, hats in particular, assist in making aware these creatures within the abstraction and provide tension between the objective and non-objective. I am interested in producing images that are disconcerting.
*** paintings from The Rosey Pallid Project are available for purchase through contacting lisa.
My paintings investigate the intuitive processes of painting, more subjective methods, where action/reaction and fantasy are of great importance. My process, in particular, initiates with the application of intuitive brush strokes onto a canvas; I close my eyes and scribble onto the canvas establishing a series of non-objective marks to be accentuated upon with thicker, bolder strokes of paint. In this process of accentuation I have constructed a game, one where I am constantly searching for forms or creatures within the series of marks. Upon noticing such creatures, I can then describe them further by, for instance, adding eyes. I consider this approach to painting as being similar to the childhood game of searching for and then emphasizing discovered forms within a series of doodling lines.
The imagined creature-monsters, their googly-eyes and snouts, employ both playful and sinister or grotesque qualities as a means for the evocation of humor as well as fear. The representational components, hats in particular, assist in making aware these creatures within the abstraction and provide tension between the objective and non-objective. I am interested in producing images that are disconcerting.
*** paintings from The Rosey Pallid Project are available for purchase through contacting lisa.
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