Dark shine Painting by Emma Pesti

Painting: Acrylic on Canvas.

Although my work is highly abstracted, we can discover worlds in the details – the sun, the moon, the water, skies, dust in the clouds, windows on houses. However, the topic is of a secondary importance to me, while I paint I mostly deal with the composition and creating the balance. One of the pillars of my painting is the planned, controlled randomness, the conscious placement of gestures that may seem accidental on the canvas, based on compositional aspects. I seek harmony between the constructive, the geometric, and the expressive, the chaotic. Despite the placement of each geometric shape (circle, linear shapes in turquoise, deep black or any other favourite colours of mine) on the canvas is in contrast with the surrounding sweeping brush strokes, paint dribbling, sharp charcoal lines, a sense of harmony, calmness in the restless reality emerge.