julie edwardson artspace: Recent Acrylic painting

Rust, Acrylic on monoprint

Detail

I have been working on the theme of eroded and decaying surfaces for some time now and I have been enjoying using colour and mark-making.

The images are taken from photos that I have mostly taken myself whilst walking but sometimes just from the Internet. The kind of things that catch my eye are eroded paint surfaces, rich textures and painted woodwork.

I like to work onto a ready dragged surface sometimes of arbitrary colours while I work over with transparent glazes or opaque layers. I also find I enjoy working onto surfaces that have been collaged from a few previously dragged pieces of paper as I make selections of the areas that I respond to or as they relate to the subject I am focusing on.

Although the subject may be flat and without perspective, I am creating physical depth with the layers of paint, colour and texture and I suppose, a level of trompe l'oeil with the colour. The act of painting is important to me, the tactile sensation of applying paint and building up layers of mark making.

The images in this selection are all on paper that has been previously dragged with acrylic paint, torn and collaged, or monoprinted onto first.