Category Archives: Mixed media

emerging again …

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Emerging forms (ii), acrylic/mixed-media on canvas, 100x100cm. © Mari French 2016

Emerging forms (ii), acrylic/mixed-media on canvas, 100x100cm. © Mari French 2016

… and here’s the next one in my latest series. Lots of thick juicy acrylic paint contrasting with a variety of marks and thin veils of overlying colour. I love this palette just now.

Definitely a feel of the coast here, but something more that I haven’t pinned down yet. I’m enjoying the sense that these works seem perhaps (to me) to have further meaning, from my subconscious or from observation. Meanwhile I’m allowing things to emerge in their own time.

emerging blooms …

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Mixed-media on canvas, 100x100cm. © Mari French 2016

Mixed-media on canvas, 100x100cm. © Mari French 2016

After struggling with a couple of canvases this week, I was beginning to lose the plot with this one. Remembering what I’d recently been advised* – ‘Don’t let your painting know you’re scared of it’ – I threw caution to the wind and began editing the image by vigorously covering certain areas with paint, then adding a variety of marks with oil sticks, paint pens and ink pencils. 

Some marks were robust, some delicate and twirling or meandering. Several of the latter seem to be suggesting etoliated, wiry but fragile blooms? I love this colour palette, luminous, soft and atmospheric.

Standing back, I’m quietly excited by this one.

 

* Emily Ball, artist & tutor.

and another…

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… after a few ‘failures’ and much gnashing of teeth this week (plus getting chased around the studio two days in a row by a large hornet), this one emerged. Again mixed media on paper, but I haven’t come up with a title yet.

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