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Pip Dickens
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"DR ZHIVAGO" - Silver Birch Drawings, 2008
Part of the 'Fabrications' series the 'Dr Zhivago' drawings comprise nine charcoal drawings as a single artwork. They are meant to be viewed as a sequence reminiscent of film stills. The 'Lara' and 'The Poet' drawings, however, are displayed apart from the others, on another wall. They are hung side by side but not together and this alludes to the tragedy of their separation. The sequential drawings depict shared experiences. (Pictured below are 'Two Students, 1905' and 'The Poet')
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The Reading Room At Yuritatin' and 'The Girl'
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'Lara' and 'The Hospital'
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'Dr Zhivago' series drawings, 2008
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Drawing is an important aspect of my practice. I see it as an entity in its own right but also part and parcel of the development of concepts towards paintings on canvas.
A theme running through all of my work is the interplay between light and dark, opacity and transparency.
Many of my oil paintings start with a black primed canvas and through use of translucent oil mediums, layers of lustrous colour are built up to produce chiaroscuro effects of shadow and light.
I am intrigued by the idea of light emanating from within a painting or, as in my 'Black' series paintings that light is produced by refracting the surface of a canvas.
I see my work as being 'extractive' - drawing from phenomena in the world yet being neither abstract nor overtly figurative in treatment.
Drawing the essence of something, its nature, the atmosphere or memory it evokes, is essentially what I am interested in.
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Pictured (right) is an image of 'Madame Bovary' one of two paintings responding to femme fatales from classic literature. I took a detail of a silk dress from a painting by Ingres (1853) to suggest that the opulence and sensuality of silk could be both seductive and dangerous!
Ingres' dress is a beautiful blue silk. My painting is built up from a black background using yellow pigment resulting in a ‘poisonous' green. By selecting only a detail, full ‘ownership’ of the dress is denied. Folds are created using aggressive painting techniques, carving deep into the medium.
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Madame Bovary, oil on canvas, 92 cm x 92 cm
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