#johnson.helen

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Helen Johnson, MCA

line drawing, no form

forms constructed through flat areas of colour and edged in white > raked surface

Foremost image, fabrics etc. printed onto the canvas, hand drawn lines for hands, faces etc.  

Occasionally something on the surface, over everything else

Fred Williams, Trees on hillside II, MCA

washy ground, undulating thin sienna

marks for the trees etc. are often not just sitting on the surface, but are on smudges of paint which read as a mid-ground

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Looking for crossword painting strategies.

Kate MCarthee (1) flat unmodulating areas of colour, line drawing over top, indeterminate pictorial depth // Helen Johnson (2) flat areas of colours and texture, limited detail in more realistic areas, bright line drawings/negative spaces weaving through the work // Mohamed Lekleti  ★ ☆ (3) blur used with line drawings with overlaps in image occasioning change in technique (rather than, say, affecting the colour of the overlap), aspects of the image reaching into negative space > three-dimensional, sculptural elements further destabilises image’s depth // Colin McCahon (4) erasure, strong symbology