Art Blog Hop
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| Knee Jerk ..by Rebecca Young 20 |
It's been quite remarkable to meet and interact with some amazing painters/artist on the internet. More so, it's a great honor to be one of Sabine Tress's recipients for the " Art Blog Hop" I've been a great admirer of her paintings since I came across her works on FB and Tumblr.
Beautiful paintings Sabine!!!..;)
And thank you for your kind insightful words and again for choosing me for one of your recipients!!
Recipients Q and A :
How does your creative process work?
Through my own constant questions and answers that ramble in my head !
I've always been obsessed with paint, it's process, how I can get it to explain my understanding of it and my thoughts....Fist-a-cuffs! It's a constant forming of order out of chaos with brush strokes.. Texture of paint and the way I use my brushes have always been a major concern of mine. It's an Alchemic process which I find pertinent to express this chaos and to form an order with it!! I also look at a lot of artists paintings to help with this process. I do my best to see the work in person, but books and the internet are my easiest access.. The internet has also been really helpful to get my paintings(mentally) outside of my workspace. It momentarily answers the question of what I am supposed to do with them as well as it gives me the interaction with other artist that I need..This has a been big help!
I paint whenever I can but I really like painting at night when I can have my own solitude. I'm able to be in my world with my paintings and without any interference. I try to keep several paintings going at one time.. Its important for me able to see how a brush stroke can bounce off another or even submerge itself with other colored paint forms... One painting playing off of another! It's quite remarkable when the paintings start orchestrating with each other and it's only recently that all this has really happened. Finally after years of struggles and discouragement with painting, I now have a certain correspondence and understanding with it. It's a ritual that discards rules! The energy from my environment is crucial in how interact with my work. I've been living back in Northern Alabama the last two years to help look after my father and in my spare time I have familiarized myself again with places I use to runaround when I was a kid. We are at the foot end of the Appalachians so there are lots of mountains, rock formations,water ways and of course tornadoes. This is where my idea of of Animism comes into play. It's not just the idea that all these elements having a soul but it's the energy and force they all create through erosion, decomposing, destruction, growth, photosynthesis, deposition.......Everything I try to possess in my paintings!
How does my work differ from others of it's genres?
My paintings are a quarter of an inch "OFF" from every one else's ....................;)
What am I working on now?
I have just recently started painting on canvas paper. I do a bunch of them at a time and try not to think about what I'm doing. It's a good way to let my intuition kick in and just paint. Working on stretched canvas sometimes makes me feel too in control or restricted. Its good for me to have this liberation for the moment. I've also been working on these while writing this blog.. It helps me translate what I'm doing into words!!
Why do you do what you do?
Morale!! My own sense of accomplishment !
I started back painting several years ago. Being uncertain about what I needed to do, I used objects as a subject matter just so I could get familiarized with my painting again. It's important for me to push away from the object and get back to where I left off..I wanted to recollect all my senses back in my work again. When I say senses, there are certain textures and colors that go through my head when I see, smell, or hear different things.. Recently I feel like I have been able to transport this into my work again and yes this a great feeling of morale! I can speak my own language again!
It's also been important for me to write this blog. I don't correspond with many people or artist about art or my art work. So this is a good way for me to let everyone know a little bit about me and where I am coming from. As well I'd like to start showing my work again!
For my recipients, I have chosen three incredible artist that I have a great deal of admiration for and have a lot
too learn from!
Susan Carr - Her paintings are totems,amulets, and sacred charms. Something that could be found on an archaeological dig/excavation site. With layers of thick colorful war paint, she intertwines pieces of wood and yarn with each other to make these enchanting shamanistic objects/paintings. There is definitely a certain electricity/aura she produces in her paintings and as she says, "Denotes a sense of magic"! They are powerful little paintings!
Jean- Pierre Bourquin His small works are ingenious. He composes painted gestures on notebooks and opened card board boxes that produce these industrial like diptychs and hieroglyphics. One after another,there is a constant movement from page to page, box to box, over and over again with different colored shapes and painted lines. An assemblage of automatic shapes and lines that are quite fascinating!
Brian Edmonds Brian incorporates a certain science in all his paintings;Topography, Geography, Gemology. It seems all of these are present when he chooses his brilliant colors, transparencies and composes his forms onto his canvases. I had the honor of seeing some of his works in person and they definitely transpire a feeling of opulence! An alluring opulence!! As well, I really am intrigued by his recent mono prints that he has been working on!! They are a wonderful raw and spontaneous extension of his paintings!
www.brianedmonds.com/
