Spotlight on Texture
The use of physical texture in a work of art to create depth of form and meaning is nothing new but has recently become more widespread, with many artists taking the technique in their own unique directions. Richly textured works of this kind can add a pop of avant garde interest to any decorating scheme, while the infinite variations within the surface of the paint itself create treasures that can be pondered over and admired for a lifetime.
Below are several artists who raise all the senses through their use and application of texture.
Mario Jung is known for his unique artistic technique that involves extreme impasto, resulting in pieces that straddle the boundary between sculpture and painting. By meticulously layering paint, Jung constructs whimsical landscapes that burst with vibrant hues. The intensity of his work is accentuated by the substantial drying time that can range from three months to a year due to the copious amounts of paint he employs. Employing a palette knife to apply the paint thickly from a heaping palette, Jung aims to preserve the freshness and richness of each stroke, creating a dynamic interplay of texture and color in his compositions.
Frauke Klatt is a master of the mixed medium. Painting on sailcloth, in itself a richly textured and meaningful material, Klatt’s love of the tactility of sailing is brought to the fore. Through the mixing of sand in with her paints she creates nautical paintings that embrace everything about the salt, the sand, and the sea that inspire her.
Frauke Klatt is a self-educated artist. After completing her education in teaching and starting a family, she pursued her desire to paint with a private instructor. Eventually, she found her own direction and mode of expression. Now, the overwhelming tool is her emphasis on the horizon. Abstraction allows her to transport the viewer to a vision of freedom on the sea.
Over the Line, 40x40
Nuria Miro pairs richly detailed and traditional backgrounds with simplified sculptural figures in joyful and colorful groupings. Her work is as whimsical as it is skillful and the soft, almost liquid, appearance of her figures add an element of play. Miro is a painter of high quality, sensitivity, emotion, and poetry. Her works are highly expressive in brushstrokes, reflective of pristine colors, and precise in linework, all coalescing to form a play of light and shadow of her condensed spaces.
Her combined academic training and her intuitiveness of art present painting as effortless, with the consistency of her masterful drawing skills, dynamic perspectives, and loose brushwork. Her technique is deliberate and steady, as evidenced in any of her works.
