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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