This painting is made with professional quality acrylic paint on canvas and professionally framed in Tasmanian Oak. The painting was part of a series of works for an exhibition held in 2022 around the notions of hard edges and colour fields. In all of these works, I am studying how colours interact with each other and how the quality of the edges can influence that. this painting was created by applying many thin layers of transparent colour to achieve the desired effect.
Susana Depetris 19 artworks | 4 Sold Follow Contact Susana An integral part of my work is the use of layers of transparent colour. I’m intrigued by the idea that different colours can elicit different emotions, so my practice is based around the investigation of this concept. I ask the viewer to observe the work and what feelings arise from the experience. My process is to apply washes of paint and let them drip, sometimes spraying the canvas with water to create flows of colour. I keep adding layers to achieve brighter colours, and apply masks to the areas that I want to keep unchanged. I love the uncertainty involved.