Erica’s current self-directed work explores complementary colours in a similar way that Josef Albers’ coloured squares did, while also considering how you can manipulate paint and the movement of paint on the surface of a canvas. She started out looking at the structure of buildings and using a thicker application of paint than she is today. Her work evolved into paintings with a seemingly flat texture, yet still retain depth in them. She has experimented with applying acrylic paints using pallet knifes and varying sizes of paintbrushes. The brush strokes are similar to Gerhard Richter and Howard Hodgkin’s abstract works, who she has researched in relation to her work.
To me, they focus a lot on line, the size of the brush strokes, the length and fluidness of them. On some pieces, you can tell how wet the paint was and how much of it was on the brush because the stroke thins out when the paint runs out. Whereas on others it stops quickly and suddenly, leaving behind a solid shape.
She has recently started working with oil paints and intends to create a series of paintings, maybe 4 or 5 canvases all similar and sticking to a similar size but aiming to link all the pieces together by either a brush stroke or colour.
Erica's statement of my Self-Directed work:
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