Paintings by Dawn Arrowsmith |
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| "I'm inspired by the spices and fragrant soups and
curries that I cook and consume."
Arrowsmith's glowing and quietly dissolving works are derived from investigations of ayurvedic cooking, longevity, meditation, nature and light. The particles float and interact in fields of light, playing between the mundane and transcendent. |
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Dawn Arrowsmith paints with pastry brushes and
Asian toothpicks — using the small sticks to create a meditative field of fine,
spice-like marks on the canvas. She applies no more than a tablespoon of acrylic paint
— spread out among thousands of dots — to a natural canvas to which she has
applied a color wash. The canvas also has flecks within the woven surface, which she uses
as a kind of drawing to follow as she covers the surface with tiny paint marks.