"Blue Bloom" is a piece that marks the artist's return to integrating her early drawing techniques into her painting practice, and a new shift toward using the color blue.
The piece incorporates automatic drawing—a technique the artist had used extensively on paper, often with a silver ink gel pen, during the beginning of her MFA program.
She translated this drawing style to a larger scale on canvas.
The work features the fluidity and transparency of the paint (likely the blue field). The silver pen drawing was applied to follow the shape of the paint and the different hues, rather than being a tight, predetermined sketch. The artist approaches the drawing as a way to "decipher what it's telling me."
The piece belongs to a series of works influenced by a trip to New Zealand, where the artist was impacted by the fragility of the Earth, the transformation of the land, and the intensity of indigenous art.
This experience, coupled with thoughts of vulnerability, inspired a set of five large canvases, after which she continued with smaller paintings like "Blue Bloom."
"Blue Bloom" is a piece that marks the artist's return to integrating her early drawing techniques into her painting practice, and a new shift toward using the color blue.
The piece incorporates automatic drawing—a technique the artist had used extensively on paper, often with a silver ink gel pen, during the beginning of her MFA program.
She translated this drawing style to a larger scale on canvas.
The work features the fluidity and transparency of the paint (likely the blue field). The silver pen drawing was applied to follow the shape of the paint and the different hues, rather than being a tight, predetermined sketch. The artist approaches the drawing as a way to "decipher what it's telling me."
The piece belongs to a series of works influenced by a trip to New Zealand, where the artist was impacted by the fragility of the Earth, the transformation of the land, and the intensity of indigenous art.
This experience, coupled with thoughts of vulnerability, inspired a set of five large canvases, after which she continued with smaller paintings like "Blue Bloom."
