Karst

Karst follows a continuing interest in layers of lines accumulating over the picture surface. Karst is made up of a variety of sinuous vertical lines. The brush strokes are comparatively long in what is a compact work. The background is grey with violet in it. As some orange lines become transparent the background shows through. Karst is an abstract piece but the colour and line combine to suggest tree bark. The title is whimsical, not representational.

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I am a visual artist with a hidden disability. I mainly paint in oil on canvas. My works celebrate the process of painting, embracing changes, accidents, and discoveries made along the way. For as long as I can remember I have been interested in lines in artwork. This interest has distilled to a point where I am painting only in lines. Lines come in many forms‚ the brush stoke‚ the mark‚ calligraphy. I love the way the patterns of lines build up‚ they merge from fields into traces of energy. I am interested in the harmonies and the joining of form and the different scales at which the lines form pattern.