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Denise is a contemporary artist based in the
in the West Midlands. Her artwork focuses on the concept of
love using natural materials to produce seductive
and striking stains. |
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| Denise collects natural materials and processes them
into pigments to stain her canvases, slides and other media. This process is an attempt to
control the uncontrollable. The materials form complex
evocative shapes and colours, forever moving and changing. The use of
natural materials allows the artwork to have its own life because
the colour changes over time. The bright vivid colours of
the pigments soon react at a molecular level with the chemicals and
bleaches in the canvas to change the tone. The combination of
natural materials, canvas media and time lead to an unpredictability
within this process, you never know what it will be like until it
happens. This mirrors the complexities of love and relationships
changing over time despite our attempts at controlling the
uncontrollable. |
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"Where Georgia O'Keeffe
might paint the flower, Denise would use the flower to
paint with." |
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| Denise is seduced by the concept of stains. She
explores the uncontrollable, which creates enigmatic and
sometimes fractal qualities. The pieces of work use pure
natural pigments untainted by modern life, however the
chemicals change the colours making them transitory and
fleeting. This decay and disorder takes us back to nature,
bound to the earth and the cycle of life. The ritual of
creation and the inevitability of death and destruction,
underpinned by the joy of creation and the lust for the
eternity of love are key concepts explored in this work. |
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