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I am a self-taught artist who did not begin to draw or paint until I was an adult.
I paint in oil on
canvas or linen but I often use vellum because it has
a translucence that
adds another layer of light to the surface.
My method was born
out of not knowing how to paint.
I did not understand the temperature of
color or how to
use value. My
method became about erasure and ultimately
I developed a repetitive process
of putting on and wiping off
paint. I also have not been able to complete a
painting
without going into it with some form of over-drawing
which seems to
hold the image together for me viscerally.
This process often imparts a luminous quality to the
surface and intensifies subtleties and the figures then seem
to exist as
after-images or in reflected light. This
process of painting is very
satisfying for me because the
physical act of wiping off layer upon layer of
impressions
helps me to get past preconceived assumptions and
attitudes in
order to reach for something that may only be
seen indirectly, something that
is, I think, more true
because it is unspoken.