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Harvest

By  Maria Kuipers 2013 - 2016

Dimensions
30 x 30 x 4

I am searching for making work that is arresting and draws the viewer into every space on the canvas. I know every area so well as I work and rework each part into the whole until the painting arrives. More recently I am using stronger secondary colours, as seen here, with orange complimenting blues and warm greys. In this painting I've employed palette knife work with the majority of the application of paint.
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Blue Rhythms

'Thrust' has strong structural elements with architectural associations, verticals, horizontals, squares and rectangles . They can be reminiscent of internal and external walls and rooms, places and spaces linked with a passage, a portal, a doorway. And the sensitive surface qualities create textures and feeling alluding to archaeology and limitless time and space, and drawn or incised lines and distressed areas of scratching are like well trodden paths. Within these spaces are narratives of…

Thrust

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