Through a process of applying many
translucent layers of oil paint onto canvases lying on the floor random expressionistic color fields are created sometimes with broken geometric structures floating on the surface.
Not exact matches
The results are sumptuous abstract encaustic
paintings that utilize a minimal color palette and repetitive imagery, thick
layers of translucent and opaque wax, paper prepared with batik markings and hand rubbed
oil stick combined to create multi dimensional panels.
At the heart
of this exhibition are three new such series: a line
of five pastels, treated like a kind
of reverse sculpture, with fat sticks
of chalky pigment ground back to dust and worked into thick pages
of handmade paper; a sequence
of 18 watercolours in which pairs
of pigments are dissolved into each other,
layer over
layer, into veils
of translucent light; and a series
of ten tall, vertical sheets
of waxed butcher's paper, carrying
oil paint dissolved into skins
of solid and liquid colour.
Alexander writes: «Keltie's
paintings are built with many
layers of intersecting
translucent and opaque matrixes in various media, including spray (
oil)
paint, acrylic and
oil pastel, forming fabulous amalgams
of color, shape and dynamism.