Jim C. Brown
Photos on Plaster
Vancouver, British Columbia

This work is a new direction for me and still very experimental. The imagery is discovered by the process. I start with a carved abstract pattern which i bury in layers of paint and glazes. Then i work reductively, scraping away the surfaces, sanding and gouging until a remembered landscape is revealed. I am also investigating different layering techniques, adding and subtracting, drawing, printing, overpainting, erasing and obscuring. Sometimes I bury monoprinted imagery in the piece and try to find bits of it to varying degrees of success. The buried images and abstract carving i do first are not necessarily exposed in a completed work. They act as an echo or texture; a starting point or point of reference. The final result is the representation of process, the memory of effort, the consequence of exploration.