Acrylics

My approach to painting in acrylic owes a lot to my experimentation in watercolour and move towards a more mixed media technique.My preference for a surface that will take a lot of manipulation e.g. scratching, lifting, rubbing etc means that I would prefer to work on a board rather than paper and have recently began to work on canvas. As with watercolour and mixed media, I enjoy using techniques that promote texture and interesting and unpredictable paint surfaces. Colours are limited and chosen with care for each painting, consideration being given to colour harmonies, analogous and complementary colour combinations. The paint, as with my mixed media work, is applied using large brushes, palette knife, card, rag, sponge and finger and I use glazes of colour to build density of hue and tone to produce an interesting layered appearance to the work.