Nicki Rosetti
About My Art
My painting builds on the strong traditional grounding I received from the British artist Joan Wills VPSWA. From Joan I gained the skills to paint traditional still life, portraiture and landscape and it is this grounding in the essentials which underpins the more modern styles in which I now work.
To many artists, the camera is their eye on the world and the age of digital cameras allows them to snap endless potential images on a daily basis. I am no exception to this and indeed an addict.
I spend much time zooming in and cropping parts of captured images in the quest for truly inspiring designs and just occasionally they show their faces. Then the hard work starts, trying to turn that into an artwork on canvas.
Although I still capture traditional local scenes, My interest these days focuses on the use of broken colour and the relationship of shape, tone and colour of adjacent brush strokes and their place in contructing a succesfull painting.
Rather than the accepted methods of working over an entire canvas all at once, I am experimenting with a style whereby a single stroke is placed, and then subsequent strokes are placed in relation to position, tone and colour around the first. Only when the canvas is covered does the image emerge and this can be subsequently tweaked. It’s a risky strategy but early results are promising and have been well received.
I intend to continue on this path for the forseeable future, to see what develops.
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