Where is the joy and fun in living a literal or representational life?
A black and white or misconstrued life? Where everything is seen as is and understood as is or taken out of context, creating controversy for stepping outside the square?
Living independently through my own lens and with my own thoughts allows me to create my paintings in a way that anybody looking at them can experience anything they wish to. If they are interested, I will share my lens.
I approach my paintings by discovering a visual from anywhere (culture, nature, life) or finding a theme or topic of relevance to me or is current in society and then think about how I feel about it and how it could look abstracted. I leave my imagination to wander. How can I communicate my idea in a visual and abstract way that conveys meaning but brings joy and is interesting?
I will play around with the shape and size of the canvas, the colour palette and then the application and mark marking. I typically like to use a very restrained colour palette with 3 to 4 colours at most of different saturation and then apply many layers. I just know when it’s complete as I’m happy.
Maxine is a painter of abstracts and an art graduate of RMIT. She is also a commerce graduate from years ago but don’t hold that against her! Any wonder she values aesthetics?
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