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Unfolding Structure
Folded paper shapes; taking the two dimensional into the three dimensions. The sense of unfolding, an action a becoming. The event of painting, the emergence of form and structure, the whimsy of performance, the quiet of the studio.

Memory is fragmented. The cognizance of what we see with our eyes is also fragmented into a multiplicity of points of view, combined with the hue and shapes of our own feelings and memories.

Painting is an action, a doing, a process. These works are points in the the act and the life of a continuation of painting.

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Ingrained Patterns & Pathways is on show

at Salt Spring Arts from 9 June – 10 July

“That its barrenness becomes a thousand things”

Line from “The Rock” by Wallace Stevens

One poet that has influenced how I think about art is Wallace Stevens; two paintings in this series are inspired by his poems. My use of pattern is akin to Steven’s metaphor of the rock as the ground from which we build meaning in our lives.

These paintings started as a way to explore composition and to merge abstract constructs with elements of figuration. The overall pattern works as a ground on which I build the painting. It is also a foil against which I can push at the limits of the pattern to try to move beyond it and create new compositions.

An ongoing focus of my work has been to explore the relationship of the image as idea and the material presence of the painting as object. The contrast of solid and semi translucent shapes, the use of colour, the textural possibilities of the encaustic medium, the fragments of figurative elements all function like a language, directing an emotional response to the work that is suggestive of the feeling of place, of memory and narrative.

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