Black Iron 197
This oversized 50" x 50" painting is a statement piece for any home. The deep (2.5") exposed natural wood edges provide a contemporary "framed" look. This is a companion piece to Black Iron 198.
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The powdered black iron oxide used in my black ceramic glaze is also used to create my paintings. I mix the iron with water in a variety of dilutions from mostly water to an almost paste-like quality. I paint by pouring the iron onto wood panel that has been primed, sanded and prepped with absorbent ground. During the process, I am responding to the shapes, horizon lines, and sedimentary lines that naturally form, much like fractals, branches of a tree, or a root structure. The painting must stay wet while I work in layers and is sprayed with varnish before an isolation coat of acrylic medium is applied. They are finished with a matte UV protectant varnish. The paintings are textured and tactile and explore similar form, edge, and three-dimensionality as in my ceramic work. I am drawn to a sense of timelessness, the origin story of a stone, a glacier, or cracked desert earth - something that roots us in our existence beyond what humans have constructed.
