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The dance

By  Maria Kuipers 2018 - 2020
The figurative elements came about intuitively. Its a small 12 x 12 canvas which I painted fairly close up but when I stood back I could see figures on the left. The title is based on the strength of that.
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Electric Blue

'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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