CELL GALLERY
Jan. 22- Feb. 2 2025
Reception Jan. 23 6:30pm
Visual Artists strive to see the world and interpret it in a personal way.
The artistic past is also an influence.
George’s Seurat, (French, 1859-91), made hundreds of drawings using
the side of a conte crayon on textured paper. The drawings are strong,
and shimmer in a rich black and white. He explored colour in his paintings
with dots of paint, called “Pointillism”, which carries on the Expressionists’
theory of placing one colour next to the other, having the viewer’s eye mix
the two together into another hue.
The mature work of the contemporary Toronto artist Stephen Andrews has a
four colour method of printing that allows the colour to be mixed by the viewer in the same manner.
I began this series by working on small drawings in black and white, then
gradually made larger drawings in colour. Layers of pencil crayon are carefully
laid down on cold pressed (textured) water colour paper. Analogous and
Complementary colours enhance and interact with each other and the white background. The effect transforms the drawing into a shimmering, atmospheric
image.
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