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LYNDA LITCHFIELD JULY SALON Please click images above for full view.
I begin these paintings with several translucent layers of pigmented wax and paint, often laying down inlaid or drawn lines to suggest an elemental geometry.
This structured emptiness creates space and a scaffold for intuitive marks and invented paradoxical forms.
The kinds of sources that engage me are from both the natural and the constructed world around me, including diagrams, botanical forms (both historical botanical studies and actual bits of things from my garden or the ocean), mechanical structures, and random marks or patterns on rocks, pavement or walls.
These are not any kind of direct inspiration, but ordinary things observed and then later reconfigured through the scrim of memory, re-emerging as an intuitive response to what is happening in front of me in the painting.
The paintings record the unfolding of process as a kind of meditative dialog over time. Resisting fixed meaning, the work is open to ambiguity and multiple readings--balancing on the edge between revelation and concealment, meaning and randomness, beauty and indifference.
Lynda Litchfield resume
JULY SALON
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