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Painting, Acrylic on Cardboard
Size: 31.9 W x 22.4 H x 0.1 D in
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Painted with gesso with gloss varnish highlights on kraft board, this painting is about taking time before acting. A key element of my practice is meditation. I always pause and take a breath before making any mark, whether it be on canvas or paper. Each brush stroke while considered, takes on its own life and time, encapsulating the memory of making. We are encouraged and expected to react instantly to all kinds of situations presented to us including news and social media. Click, swipe, what is important is to act. What is, in fact, more important is to pause, take a breath and reflect, even if only for a moment, to respond rather than react. Working in layers, the repeated gestures using different thicknesses of paint build the image over time, adding depth and texture and giving more visual interest. Gloss varnish is used as paint, adding shimmer and yet more depth to the painting. This painting is unmounted and unframed for practical shipping. The two paintings are a couple rather than a pair. They are something of a call and response, one beginning on the right, the other on the left. Whilst the gesture is similar, each has its particularities in texture and detail. The amount of energy expended is the same; they stand separate and at the same time, connected. They work well together or equally well separately.
Painting:Acrylic on Cardboard
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:31.9 W x 22.4 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Caroline is an Anglo-French artist now based in London after living in India and China for several years. Her work centres around the energy and memory of gesture and this includes a fascination with the circle, the most elemental and universal shape in nature and in every culture on earth. It is also the largest shape any human can make with their body. She discovered Neolithic Chinese Bi, nephrite discs known to be extremely important but utterly mysterious. This concept of loss and importance resonated with her at a time of personal bereavement and the use of the shape is a key part of her visual vocabulary. Observational drawings of conductor Marin Alsop in rehearsal with the BBC Symphony orchestra for various concerts including music by Shostakovich and Sir James MacMillan, sport, quantum mechanics and most recently experiments in virtual reality all contribute to her exploration into the energy of movement, memory and the connection of all things. Caroline uses the expressive gestural qualities of brush and ink combined with gesso, paint, gilding and piercing in a process that develops over time. As in life, chance and working on the edge of control play their part. Her work reflects an ongoing process of meditation and reflection on the universally powerful yet fugitive nature of memory and the existence of gestures and traces that would otherwise be lost. The importance of something indefinable in language which is common to all, regardless of background or culture. We make marks to prove we exist and the energy this takes exists forever. In addition to making art, Caroline shares her celebration of creativity in a weekly blog, readable in 1 minute and found at http://art.carolinebanks.co.uk/blog/ .
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