As promised I have revisited some of my earliest themes and techniques. My earlier works (which you can see a few posts back in "Art from the Past") were with a less worked surface that relied more on how the canvas/calico itself reacted to my mark-making. I also used fabric collage to add contrasting detail to the loose, inky pools and drips and illustrative figures.
In more recent times I have been concerned with 'mimicking' the fabric detailing with paint, and worked up the surface myself, without relying on the mixed media, and the figures have developed into fleshy creatures with less of the pencil line aesthetics.
Here I draw on both old and new, so that it is a more worked up surface than those early times, but it still allows for a spontaneity that is brought about by the paint/surface relationship.
These works can also be viewed on the 19KAREN website here
