Ruth le Cheminant | I See Clouds | SOLD
I See Clouds | 2022
120 x 100 cm
Mixed media canvas
Tasmanian Oak shadow box frame
SOLD
BIO
Ruth le Cheminant
During the initial lockdown in 2019 my reaction was to paint my internal world and compulsively as a response to the situation. I was constricted in my activities but no one could restrict my internal world or the immediate world I lived in. I restricted the size to a 52cm x 46cm canvas and thought can I replicate the idea of expanding the physical presence of the canvas beyond a small canvas, in other words can a small work be a in essence a large painting and its energy and presence extend beyond the small size of the canvas.
After the exuberance of this series I called Covid19 Series and a major renovation within the house and the realisation this pandemic was going to last for years I reconsidered my painting. The reconsidering was a consideration that I needed to take my time, contemplate my process and be brutal in my assessment of it’s value. I put the canvases aside and gave myself time away from them to come back with a fresh eye. I challenged myself to cover/remove/obliterate areas and paintings in process that didn’t meet the standard. I let go the linkage to the landscape I’d been driven by and continued my journey of being guided by my internal world. And found in one work I intuitively returned to the landscape. I started incorporating in some paintings coloured pencils in work after being gifted 120 Faber Castell coloured pencil set. Not in all, I used it where in the painting a subtle focus was required or the eye to be directed in a low key way.
