Craft
Four techniques, each with its own subjects. Pastels for the most intimate portraits, oils for flowers, still lives, formal portraits and the occasional landscape, charcoal for horses, watercolour for quick scenes.
I see in this painter the great passion she brings to her search, giving her work the delicacy needed to define her uncommon realistic intent.
Nello Gentilini, master (translated from Italian)
The mark most clearly hers. Layers of colour blended with the fingers, slowly worked into the grain of the paper: a warm light that comes out of the ground, with contours that stay soft even where the mark is firm. It is the technique of the most intimate portraits: motherhood, women’s faces, scenes of tenderness.
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For large flowers, autumn still lives, more formal portraits. Oil allowed her long passages, glazes overlapping until the tones of fruit peels, leaves and folds of veils were built up. Underneath, always the same patience.
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The horses, above all. A passion inherited from her grandfather and father, fixed in a few rapid strokes: the mane, the hoof, the muscle in motion. The dry stroke of the charcoal holding the masses firm.
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