2020 02 FEB NL Paperturn - Flipbook - Page 3
Entropy by Cybele Ironside
Spread Like Fog by Lauren Mycroft
“The true beauty in art is its
opportunity for freedom.”
“The intersections and
disruptions of colour along the
canvas are kindred of those
along the coast.”
CYBELE IRONSIDE
L AU R E N M YC R O F T
I try to distill both the inviting and haunting aspects of the BC landscape
I’ve always been inspired by my environment and have found no matter
and ultimately want my paintings to have a calming, meditative effect
where I travel, I invariably gravitate back to coastal B.C. My paintings
on their audience. The continuous process of death, decay, and rebirth
reference the landscape, but not in a literal sense. I aim to capture
found within the changes of our four distinct seasons inspires me. I’m also
chromatic features of the coast – the shifting of light, the subtleties and
influenced by the dramatic, meteorological changes in our skies and the
movements. My process begins by pouring thinned-down liquid acrylics
way these fluxes manifest themselves on land and water. My technique is
onto the canvas. I then guide the paint with my brush and tilt the surface
to apply the oil pigment into a glazing type medium and move the paint
back and forth until a band of colour reaches the desired translucency and
around with both brush and knife to explore shapes and compositions. I
form. Looking back at my work from a year ago, I can see an enormous
drift between representation and abstraction until I find a satisfactory
amount of evolution. This comes from painting every day. The more you
middle ground. It’s important to know when to stop between layers.
look at art and the more you create, the more you’re able to see.
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