Without Colour Painting

Toying with the use of raw cotton and canvas by soaking it in various liquids, paints and glues, a series of mixed-media paintings – layered, scratched, folded or marked – led to the conception of the Pallid Series. With a focus on the word’s meaning as colourless, it highlights the idea of putting the artistic focus on the canvas through a journey of texture rather than colour, and transforms the canvas into the subject of the piece. “The aim was to produce a pale that is not an arctic landscape, not a material with meaning or beauty, not a visual sensation or a symbol, nor anything else, but a pale textured surface that is simply a pale textured surface and nothing else.”