Tania Matilda
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By simplifying forms and fragmenting them as the cubist did I’m investigating ideas around the compressions of large amounts of information into the one image. Everything that can be seen can be broken down into shapes and colours. My paintings and drawings break down the visual and simplify it into shapes then fragmenting and merging them to produce an abstract image.
I like to paint on recycled materials as I believe there are enough ‘things’ in the world and try to avoid buying more when I can. Our society is founded on a consumerist theology which has resulted in not only social problems but is also destroying out natural environment. The canvas works are painted on top of another painter’s work that he had discarded and I have left parts of his work visible to allow it to play a part in my paintings.

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Oil, pencil and collage on canvas

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#abstract, # surrealism, # oil painting, # automatic drawing, # recyled

Tania Matilda
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I often see posts on social media that are sexist or objectifying women in some way and then see all the angry comments attached. This makes me so angry. I’m angry that this didn’t happen when I was a pubescent 13 year old girl. I was born in 1967 and I grew up with the knowledge that my whole existence was for the pleasure of men. This was in a way also taught to me in school. I’m angry that date rape was not a thing and that it was normal for boys or men to have a high sex drive which caused them to be insistent when it came to their sexual needs. I’m angry that I grew up thinking If I didn’t give some-one sex when It was wanted then I wouldn’t find love or that I was frigit and weird. I’m angry that being pressured into sex was normal and that it was expected of me if I had boobs and a vagina and I wanted to be loved. I’m angry that it took reaching menopause to no longer care about how my body happens to please a man. If a man’s pleasure is dependent on being loved I’d rather be alone even if it means being lonely. I’m angry that I have had all of this inside of me from puberty to menopause.The technique I use to create my work is similar to the ‘Automatic Drawings’ which was developed by the Surrealists to produce drawings from the unconscious. Only when deciding what colours to use do I consider what the final piece will look like which gives a balance of absolute abstract with no control and a considered deliberate piece of artwork. As the work is abstract with a hint of the representational the viewer can interpret the work in any way they wish. It’s like looking at clouds with one person saying they can see a lion and another saying they can see a pineapple. The titles I give to my work usually bare no connection to the work itself apart from how I’m feeling at the time of creating the work. As the work is not consciously meaningful, I don’t like to give the viewer an explanation as to what I think the image means or resembles but instead, an insight on how I felt on that day in my studio when the work was created. This work was created on recycled wood, an old cupboard door of sorts. The wood of the item frames the artwork so no other frame is needed.The technique I use to create my work is similar to the ‘Automatic Drawings’ which was developed by the Surrealists to produce drawings from the unconscious. Only when deciding what colours to use do I consider what the final piece will look like which gives a balance of absolute abstract with no control and a considered deliberate piece of artwork. As the work is abstract with a hint of the representational the viewer can interpret the work in any way they wish. It’s like looking at clouds with one person saying they can see a lion and another saying they can see a pineapple. The titles I give to my work usually bare no connection to the work itself apart from how I’m feeling at the time of creating the work. As the work is not consciously meaningful, I don’t like to give the viewer an explanation as to what I think the image means or resembles but instead, an insight on how I felt on that day in my studio when the work was created.The technique I use to create my work is similar to the ‘Automatic Drawings’ which was developed by the Surrealists to produce drawings from the unconscious. Only when deciding what colours to use do I consider what the final piece will look like which gives a balance of absolute abstract with no control and a considered deliberate piece of artwork. As the work is abstract with a hint of the representational the viewer can interpret the work in any way they wish. It’s like looking at clouds with one person saying they can see a lion and another saying they can see a pineapple. The titles I give to my work usually bare no connection to the work itself apart from how I’m feeling at the time of creating the work. As the work is not consciously meaningful, I don’t like to give the viewer an explanation as to what I think the image means or resembles but instead, an insight on how I felt on that day in my studio when the work was created.
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