Veil 2023_88

藝術家：Ｍichael Craik

Year：2023

尺寸：70 x 70cm

媒材：Acrylic on wooden panel

Craik’s process is one of adding and subtracting, of reduction and distillation. Each work is slowly and meticulously crafted over weeks and months by repeatedly brushing, spreading and pouring layers of translucent acrylic paint. The painting goes on a journey. One moment it exists as a block of vivid, opaque, monochromatic colour, only to be tempered and transformed later by subsequent veils of paint. At regular intervals the painted surface is sanded flat, removing all brush marks to leave a pebble smooth surface and uninterrupted fields of colour, which dissolve and melt across the surface, fading to the edges where fine bands of saturated colour have been exposed. The contrasting edges of Craik’s paintings become the horizon for each painting, a boundary containing illusory spaces of colour that echo memories of light and place. These are quiet, contemplative spaces that encourage the viewer to pause and reflect. All painterly textures and marks have been erased, yet the ebb and flow of colour across the picture plane mirrors the push and pull of the process each work undergoes - the layering and uncovering of paint, the coming and going of ideas, and ultimately the passage of time.

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