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Shifts and Transitions Painting
United States
Painting, clay on Canvas
Size: 96 W x 36 H x 1 D in
Ships in a Crate
About The Artwork
Bay Onyx - black clay from San Francisco, CA Silver Cotton - white clay from Oxford, MS Black Bear Pass - beige clay from Telluride, CO Warmed by Chianti - light beige from Italy Desert Violet - purple clay from Utah Shaggy Mane Mushroom Ink Mica ... on canvas 36” x 48” diptych I call this series - 'Reclamation Project'. The idea is to restore to its image using materials it was formed with or many times materials that are perceived as bad. These mountains were painted with clay and pigments they are formed with and slowly eroded over time. I find these pigments down valley through this natural erosion process and recreate them in the moment they caught my attention. Clay painting is a technique that I invented; initially it was a lucky accident but then it grew from there. Clay painting or painting with pigments is one of the oldest and really first technique that a man used to express himself creatively - Cave painting comes to mind. I basically take this approach but modernize it and deliver it on canvas or water color paper. My ‘paint’ is clay and I dig it up from the ground on my travels and hikes. Colors are dependent on the geography of the area I am in. I have a small shovel or a spoon or sometimes scoop it up by hand into ziplock or other containers for transfer to my studio where I clean it from sticks rocks and other impurities. To paint with it - I just add water and paint. I don’t add other color or pigments to my process. Painting with clay is similar to fresco painting. Clay dries up really fast on the surface so I have to work fast and on a small surface area (almost like stippling). It is also semi permanent mark; clay shrinks when it dries and in the process it grips the surface it’s on. Painting over it is ineffective as two clays binding together either mix resulting in a different color or the top one chips away.
Details & Dimensions
Multi-paneled Painting:clay on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:96 W x 36 H x 1 D in
Number of Panels:2
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:United States.
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Eunika was born and raised in a small village near Trnava, Slovakia, former Czechoslovakia. At the age of 12, she and her family went on a vacation to former Yugoslavia and never returned home - they fled what was then a communist block country. They spent the next 4 months in refugee camps and eventually immigrated to Canada. Seven years later, after graduating from high school with honors, she packed her bags again and headed south to the Mississippi Delta following a tennis and cross country running scholarship at Delta State University. Her studies included double major in graphic arts and ceramics. During her senior year, under the guidance of her ceramic professor / mentor (and now a very close friend) Marcella Small, she discovered her passion for clay - not only as an art form but also as a spiritual experience. On weekends they would go on clay digs in the Mississippi hills and work on their individual works of art. After receiving her BFA, Eunika was accepted to attend graduate program in University of Memphis with emphasis in ceramics. Her MFA thesis intentions were to create beautifully thrown ceramic pieces. Instead, her final works included a mixture or raw and natural instillations created from her clay digs. These works provided an extensive collection of 'red-stained' studio clothes that lead to the idea of using clay as a painting medium. Today she still paints with Mississippi red clay that she digs up near Carrollton Mississippi. She also has added other clays and pigments to her palette. As a hiker and ultra distance trail runner she has the means to find secluded areas with clay deposits. She runs with a small backpack and along with her running/hiking gear she carries a small shovel, ziplock bags and her camera to record her experience. She has a collection of umber, sienna and ochre pigmented clays from across America's countryside. These clays provide the staining pigments that make up her art imagery. Through her art she tries to capture the "passage of time" and how it imprints on our lives.
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