ARTUR GALLERY, SOFIA (BG)
Water Imprints (series of 29 paintings)
1996 – 97, gouache and tempera on Velké Losiny® Paper with deckle edges, in two different sizes: 29 х 42 cm and 42 х 58 cm. Frame sizes are: 40 х 54 cm и 53 х 70 cm respectively.
The Water Imprints series was created so to say at one go. I had about thirty sheets of nice, hand-made paper from the famous Czech paper mill Velké Losiny and I wanted to try what one could do with them.
My aim was to experiment and make relatively simple, almost geometrical compositions that were to be enlivened with color and various textures including with some simple print forms and stencils made of handy materials. I needed to work fast because the paper has its own character and one should make it pretty wet, then slightly dry and somewhere in that gap – while it is neither too wet, nor dry – to fill it with color and shape. There is not room for deep thoughts in this process. What is needed are quick decisions and improvisations. That unleashes the creative impulses and the intuition and – together with certain chance (because one works with water) gives as a result free works without surplus speculations. The sole conception is the unfolding of the inner sense of composition and color.
