“Painting is always at the heart of my practice although drawing will occasionally come to the fore and remain the focus for a short period of time. Both activities have had a different role to play in producing work but they are equally important in maintaining a fresh, diverse and robust practice.
A natural environment is both motivation and source and this lived experience is revealed through the act of making. Perceptions change as one moment synthesis’s with another and it is the culminating effect of many experiences that emerge within a specific painting, not an impression from one viewpoint. The primary source might simply be a walk through an inspirational landscape, familiar or unfamiliar, where sights, sounds and sensations might be recorded visually through mark making.
During the creative process reality and imagination merge, memories become distant as the material process of exploration, manipulation and improvisation of paint (and paint mediums) becomes the driving force. The dialogue between the canvas and myself intensifies, particularly when problems emerge, as happens with every painting.”
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- Sharon Steingold
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- Sharon Steingold
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- Sharon Steingold
