In this process-oriented approach to painting, the artist cares for the physical qualities of material and surfaces. Starting with a failed painting, scraping, sanding and glazing to create a ground which is the foundation for the subsequent layers. Different kinds of paint application are used to create a range of mark making; flat matte washes, scribbly lines, crisp silhouettes, stencils, sgraffito. There is a visual pleasure of discovering forms that harmonize but do not align. Colour is used to evoke different atmospheres; playful, poetic, murky, intimate, ancient. It can be an overall mood tone or a surprise element as when small segments of brilliant colour are dropped into fields of neutral tones. Through a series of micro aesthetic decisions Heather alters and edits elements in and out of the painting, seeking a balance that is both light and weighty. This physical and psychoanalytic act of re-ordering gives value to the buried layers of the painting as well as the surface. This is a layered and intuitive process in which each painting hides and reveals in differing measure, inviting the viewer to linger longer in the enclosed world.
Heather McReynolds
Via Sopra San Martino
Calci
56011
Pisa
Italy
Europe
