Artist Information:
Sandra Bray
Elmira,
Canada
Member Since: Jan 2005
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Artist Statement:
When I decided to create artworks on the theme of global peace and dialogue for an exhibition in Turkey, I was launched from painting landscapes into a new world. After a month of sketchbook work and research, black and white seemed the obvious and only choice for these images, so I reluctantly gave up my sumptuous oil paints.
Two concerns with working in b/w presented themselves: firstly, I find b/w rather stark and cold; additionally, I don’t like framing that separates the viewer and the work, with glass. Drawing on unprimed canvas solved both of these issues as raw canvas was a warm-sepia in tone and didn’t require glass.
After years of oil painting, I can achieve a sense of form in my work. However, my drawing work has had a flat quality with which I wanted to experiment. The technical issue of achieving structure became my goal in what had now become a series in my mind. Books have a simple structure that can be manipulated and were the perfect objects to work while developing form.
As the days of thought and scribbled sketches passed, the next consideration grew: what message do I want ...
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Sandra Bray's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Sandra Bray's Portfolio. Browse Bray's body of work: When I decided to create artworks on the theme of global peace and dialogue for an exhibition in Turkey, I was launched from painting landscapes into a new world. After a month of sketchbook work and research, black and white seemed the obvious and only choice for these images, so I reluctantly gave up my sumptuous oil paints.
Two concerns with working in b/w presented themselves: firstly, I find b/w rather stark and cold; additionally, I don’t like framing that separates the viewer and the work, with glass. Drawing on unprimed canvas solved both of these issues ... | |
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