From My Easel By Carmen Cilliers: Knowing when to stop "The Crowd".

02 October 2007

Knowing when to stop "The Crowd".

Hello everyone. Here's a new slide show for you to view. The painting is titled "The Crowd".
Medium is acrylic on canvas and the painting measures 60x60cm. I've tried to maintain a translucent, luminous effec which I feel I have achieved. The temptation to continue painting is there, but I have decided that it is a vibrant, light piece and probably finished. So instead re-experiencing what I went through with "Blasting The Canavas" I have decided that I will use a new canvas and paint till I get a similar effect and then continue to another level and see what happens (just in case I end up regretting painting over this one). Well, here's the slide show, I hope you enjoy. I look forward to any comments or feedback you may like to share. Carmen : )

INTRODUCTION

Hello ,

I am a Perth based visual artist, working mostly with acrylics and mixed mediums on canvas.

At the beginning of 2007 I decided to take a leap out of the corporate world and look to new horizons. Subsequently I studied and and recently graduated as a Transpersonal Art Therapist and through the process some door in my psyche which had silently shut many years ago burst open unleashing a flood of creative ideas and expressions from within.

In a sense my paintings are the story of my life. They contain symbols that represent my emotions, my memories, my fears and my triumphs. Occassionally my work leads me to a place I had not consciously intended to go, but when I reach that moment when "it's done" and sit in silent contemplation of a work like this, another piece of the puzzle that makes up me, is discovered.

Being creative affords me to fluctuate between the highs of the pieces I feel personal success with and the vulgar lows of those paintings that never allow me to down the brush as they battle to tell a story whose image I may subconsciously be fighting to reveal.