"Directions in My Paintings"   by Jennifer Ann Wiggs

A painting is like a group of things being held in a delicate tension. I like playing with pictorial cues.

Play is a necessary ingredient in making art. 

I think my work is about painting.

Most of the time an idea is a starting point. Often a question is the point of departure: what happens if I…?

I’m interested in organic/geometric shapes, and shapes that the brush wants to make.

I like a balance between geometric and organic shapes.

Shapes are both figure and ground… every shape is a positive.

 Compositions are improvised, responsive, and unfold during the process  of painting.

 White is a sub focus at the present. Both as a color and as the field.   

 White shapes are ‘carved’ out of the field (paper) by focusing on the  negative (i.e. white) side as positive shapes are created. 

I seek to engage with the field.

I like nuanced color relationships; where for example, a blue-gray changes to a pinkish -gray. 

The opaqueness of gouache encourages flat shapes laid down side by side. 

Gouache mimics the velvet, mat paper surface in Color Aid papers, and I enjoy composing with these papers in collages.

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