Corinna Button RE - Printmaker and Painter My work comes from an insatiable fascination with people, drama and mystery. It's inspired by many sources - sometimes quite an ordinary event or something obscure and personal. Autobiographical secrets or references naturally occur, however, I do enjoy conceiving characters and situations, frequently drawing on disparate sources, bringing them together in new and unexpected combinations. I often experiment with the human form and, or place them in fantastical situations to further capture and exaggerate identity or to emphasise a particular something about the human condition. In my mythological world people become musical instruments, a body becomes a boat or hair is played like a cello, they might grow wings - they might fly! I have a very turbulent way of working - subjects continually change their original source of inspiration. Intention is often seduced into very different results once an image is taking shape - I like this - It's the overlap of intent and accident that is most desirable because it impregnates the surface with a history and mystery. I bury and flood images with surface colour and texture, then dig them out again - excavating and scraping away, instinctively finding new inspiration in the underlying layer - new vocabulary, tools to build on my picture and bring it alive. This is why I love printmaking; it allows a very physical, intimate and intriguing relationship with paper, giving these exciting and sometimes inconceivable results. I want my work to reveal a strong sense of atmosphere and feeling combining boldness with ambiguity which, for the viewer, also project recognisable significant aspects of the human experience.  Corinna exhibits widely thought the UK. "On Air" by Corinna Button Oil on Canvas 123cm x 76cm                                                                          £POA