The edge

By Maria Kuipers 2015 - 2017

Dimensions
40 x 40 x 3

Sometimes my work is about harmonies as with 'The edge of'. Warm brown tones sit alongside warm blacks with a hint of blue. And the colour combinations and placements seem to create it's own light and a sense of stillness. Geometric shapes nestle together revealing previous history within or around each shape. Cloth, paper and oil paint create layers and surfaces which have a sense of an archaeological dig, aged and worn.

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I revisited Big Blue many times to rebalance colour relationships and to create a fresher and more realised painting.

Big 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

Bcalm has a history of transition starting from 2013 when I exhibited this painting in a solo show in London, Thomas and Paul Gallery. Returning after the show I modified the painting by simplifying the complex array of shapes and making subtle changes to the colour values. Then in early 2015, post West Pier Art project, I changed it again. Materials and techniques used within a layering process, were painting, incising, scraping, sanding sgraffito, fabric and paper collage, tapestry, and…

Bcalm

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