Riprap 2 Louise Blyton looking for the tension between

looking for the tension between the shape and the grid

The dripped surface of that background is only seen through small openings

This painting is part of a series titled (r)evolution which started in 2014

” The scraping and sanding creates a variety of different textures and leads to the emergence of unexpected forms

yellows and blues in her palette often recall bodily fluids

Riprap 2 Louise Blyton looking for the tension betweenThis fluid abstract work on paper is intuitively made with a coloured pencil and acrylic. The intersecting multi layered forms create richly worked surfaces that refer neither to narrative or image but develop out of the discourse and physicality of the painting process. They are influenced by the edge and the grid of the two dimensional picture plane and evoke the liminal space between sensation and memory.