 Its an intuitive process, in chaos I play with figures, altering their spaces, wiping off and keeping marks from previous layers whilst creating new spaces over others until I obtain a certain atmosphere and the expression that I want…which is something I find whilst going along…a history is built into the canvas, and adds weight and poetry to the final image... I paint out of my inner world, with all the sights, emotions, thoughts, people, things, atmospheres and the history that runs through me. It all shapes what happens on the canvas… almost like a diary with no words based in a reality seen through my eyes. It has dreams, fantasies and inner adventures tangled within the pure reality, playing between the restless and standing still, always in a flux… a playfulness running in and out of the layers of oil paint, with a deep sincere essence holding it all together. To me my paintings hold many secrets - and I like it that way, it gives them space to breath and live their own lives, just like people, they have a sea of secrets too… I believe my paintings are the voice of my silence… Kristin Vestgard August 2007 |
