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Jethro Tull Coreopsis (RBC Canadian Painting Competition 2009 semi-finalist)

Artist
Janice Colbert
Description
Jethro Tull Coreopsis is informed by my research into old quilts. The painting represents the toil required to gather worn clothing, improvise and problem-solve when there isn’t enough fabric to sew a visually engaging quilt. The title is the name of a flower in my garden. Through distortion and an iterative colour selection, soft lines of flowers become hard-edged paintings; evocative of quilts, the ‘scraps’ of colour rarely repeat, but are balanced. Compare to When We Go to the Ocean/Sky.
Year
2009
Size
60.96 × 60.96 × 3.82 cm
Category
Painting
Medium
Acrylic paint, baltic-birch wood-panel

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