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| July 21st, 2010 72x126 painted and dyed cloth and acrylic on canvas |
I love studio practice—working at night especially. Some of my paintings are night paintings and some are day paintings. Formerly, I destroyed paintings if they didn’t suit me. I seldom do that anymore. It is more interesting to give the painting time to assert itself. The important thing in painting isn’t how much time it takes to make the painting, but the painting’s quality of timing. Both scale and timing are fugitive aspects of abstract painting that can’t be taught, or even talked about. Some of my paintings evolve very slowly over months, some start, then stop for months, then finish very quickly. I stay close to each painting from beginning to end. Even the staples I use to stretch the canvas, affect the final painting. The quality of canvas or linen, the way it absorbs the paint or responds to charcoal is an essential aspect of my practice—that and water, buckets of watery color. - DONA NELSON
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