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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.
Corinna Button with be having an
exhibition at Wildwood Gallery from 11 - 27 October 2007.
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