New artist and ideas:

This is a rough idea of one of my new ideas to have nylon strands glued to a linen canvas. I want to work with the grid and elemnts of the weaving (which will relate back to the linen which supports the imagery). I will try this with PVA glue and nylon on a linen canvas, building up different layers, textures, colours and patterns of nylon.

Helene Appel:

Chopping Board - Chopping Board Oil on canvas 30x45 cm

 

Helene Appel, “Netz,” 2010. Acryl, oil, aquarell on canvas 192 x 365 cm

 

Helene Appel, Leek, oil on linen, 72cm x 118cm, 2009

 

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Similarly, Helene Appel is not interested in regarding an object as mere training ground for a painter’s technical capabilities. Although Appel is clearly capable, she is mainly dedicated to painting the object in front of her. The raw linen becomes the background. It has to suffice since what matters is the dissected leek. Everything else would be too much and distracting so she decides to loose herself in the object instead of the paint she applies. It is mark-making nonetheless, but with a higher degree of control.

 

Like Helene I am more interested in the nylon patterns I want to creat on the linen surface. Even though th3e weaving and grids referenc the make up of the support I want to get lost in the patterns, colour combinantions and merging of colours created through my pattern making.

 

In the enxt two weeks I am going to really explore these two paths, nylon on linen backgorunds and nylon simply supported by a frame. I feel that both these options escape the experimental qualities of the gloopy PVA glue and focus more on the delicacy and elegance of the patterns made from thin strand sof coloured nylon.