Painting Method

How I apply paint, the tools I use and how the paint behaves is as important to the painting as my other sources of inspiration.  Paintings start with an idea.  Paintings can also start from curiosity about what will happen if I allow the materials to lead me. Mostly my paintings are combination of both approaches.

Curiosity about tools and materials has resulted in my use of bespoke and other decorator type rollers. In the process of experimentation with rollers I have collaborated with Embossing Specialist Carl Ingalls of www.embossingtechnologies.com in the USA to make a roller that gave me the repetition I sort for the paintings of the Interstice Series.

For a different tool I made a simple sail device to catch the wind. There was an attachment on the sail device from which pens, brushes and less orthodox implements were fixed so the energy and direction of the wind could be captured and transferred through the drawn mark onto paper and canvas.

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/tracey/perf/sgoluppi.html

For another project I modified a remote control model Ferrari with construction Meccano so that pens etc could trace the movement of the car, allowing ‘remote’ drawings to be made. Building on this project I've since modified the construction that fits on the car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2SW9_t7u0 

My Twitter name is @Linda_Sgoluppi. I sometimes Tweet about on-going studio work.

Posterous is a site where I post an eclectic mix of things.

http://lindasgoluppi.posterous.com/

I am a contributor to Artless, a site where conversation conducted through images:

 http://artless-artists.posterous.com/

Linda Sgoluppi