100x100cm

acrylic, oil, ink, and spray on stretched, unprimed canvas

2019

These works on natural unprimed cotton are unforgiving and somewhat tumultuous. I begin by painting a circle of water... Then add pigments, at times liquid, other times soft pastel. I give and take color. Then I let the first layers/washes dry. I return to the work the following day and add details and textures. At times adding water again and pigment and other times painting somewhat dry. I try to listen to the painting and add what it needs and asked for. I also try to listen closely to when it is done. These as all paintings have a danger of becoming overworked.

“The work evokes genesis, beginnings. There is a trembly, nascent quality to the form. Its name, Wombly references Cy Twombly, and is also a cheeky reference to pregnancy. Its shape and color scheme evoke the Earth, and the fluid quality of the colors also are reminiscent of embryonic cell division.

The broken or empty parts of the shape and the splatters elsewhere on the canvas seem to indicate movement or story. It is as if the work is frozen mid-process, not unfinished, but a single frame in a time-lapse. It is a painting that anticipates.” - Sarah Ben Olsen

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