Polish For My Tarnished Soul (Sanctuary Series) Painting

I created the Sanctuary series based on a rectangular border of many small oil paintings. The individual paintings fit together to form a sort of courtyard shape with a blank area in the center. The borders are both protective and restrictive at the same time. The individual oil paintings are each painted by hand and feature colors and shapes vaguely suggestive of landscape, sky, or earth imagery. I think of each painting like a window -- a small glimpse of something bigger past the frame. All the small windows fit together to create a bigger window-like shape. I manipulate the oil paint without brushes, pushing it across the surface and scraping it away so that it is both thick and thin. I also leave gaps between the oil paint shapes where white gesso shows through as a white linear element -- a type of barrier between the shapes of the paintings. I'm fascinated by containers, compartments, gaps, and boundaries. This painting is done on heavy-weight watercolor paper, sealed with acrylic gesso on both sides for stability. The paper has a natural deckle edge on two sides.

Painting:Oil on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:22.5 W x 30.2 H x 0.1 D in

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