all images © 2011 Victoria Alexander

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STOLEN PAINTING

“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.” Egon Shiele

My work compels me to explore the significance of memory, images and experience, and their impact on my life. My materials are most often acrylic paint and ink on board, often worked in layers which are sometimes scraped to reveal the under-painting beneath.

My objective is to create an expressive account of a moment in time, a transitional impulse or the impression of an moment. Most of my pieces involve movement and the elements have a fugitive feel to them. There are intricate, over-lapping washes, with colour harmonies which are sometimes strong and opposing. Bright lights, contrasting with darkened skies, and surfaces touched with the changing light of early morning or the transitional light of late evening. I use light as a metaphor for love and death, the march of time, and the magic of chance.

3 Graces Miss the Bus

Hwy5 - Late Evening

Approach to the Kingdom