Rachel Lancaster
www.rachellancaster.co.uk
@rachel_lancaster
Statement:
The source imagery for Rachel Lancasters paintings is drawn from a variety of places, including ‘stills’ from found moving imagery, her personal archive of photographs, alongside drawings based on imagery from her minds’ eye.
Lancaster uses painting to slow down the act of looking which allows the opportunity to linger on the potentially overlooked. Often selecting ‘stills’ which reflect an ongoing interest in the traditions of still life and vanitas painting. These paintings have been created through applying multiple thin layers of paint resulting in a variety of optical effects. Often the anticipated details within the surface of the paint often give way to loose and minimal rendering The immediacy of the painted surface plays off against the hazy, half remembered, just out of reach quality in the image. Cropping, colour and mark making are manipulated in order to play upon the latent 'otherness' and dreamlike qualities often found in cinema and how this can be reflected in painting.
www.rachellancaster.co.uk
@rachel_lancaster
Statement:
The source imagery for Rachel Lancasters paintings is drawn from a variety of places, including ‘stills’ from found moving imagery, her personal archive of photographs, alongside drawings based on imagery from her minds’ eye.
Lancaster uses painting to slow down the act of looking which allows the opportunity to linger on the potentially overlooked. Often selecting ‘stills’ which reflect an ongoing interest in the traditions of still life and vanitas painting. These paintings have been created through applying multiple thin layers of paint resulting in a variety of optical effects. Often the anticipated details within the surface of the paint often give way to loose and minimal rendering The immediacy of the painted surface plays off against the hazy, half remembered, just out of reach quality in the image. Cropping, colour and mark making are manipulated in order to play upon the latent 'otherness' and dreamlike qualities often found in cinema and how this can be reflected in painting.
White Collar
50 x 60cm Oil on canvas 2021 |
Untitled
50 x 70cm Oil on canvas 2021 |