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Barbara Etcovitch creates by developing and integrating elements rather than by imposing.
I create by developing and integrating elements rather than by imposing. I don't like starting from a blank canvas. This is why my works begin with a photograph or impasto abstract transposed on to a support via a gel skin. From here I let the work speak to me and tell me what to do - what it wants me to do!
My love of color and an aversion to "staying within the lies" is the common denominator that runs through all my paintings.
I've explored many mediums but until quite recently, I did not find a medium I was comfortable with.
I spent almost three decades trying to find a medium I was passionate about. I tried classical painting and drawing, silk screening, various crafts and collage which came the closet to satisfying my passion.
Over that time the world of acrylics changed dramatically and I discovered the various gel mediums and the transfer methods. This was the passageway for my artistic expression.
Over the past few years, I have developed a technique that is based on transferring collaged photograph or impasto painting onto an acrylic gel skin which is then incorporated into an acrylic painting creating a hybrid work of art - not purely a photograph or impasto not purely a painting.
The approach which I an still developing and perfecting gives me the 1. mental stimulation and problem solving I require through the creation of the collage phase; 2. the freedom of not having to paint within the lines; 3. the unlimited possibility of color; 4. the liberty to be messy, inexact and spontaneous; and 5. the platform on which to make a statement and leave a message behind - usually something related to social consciousness.
My love of color and an aversion to "staying within the lies" is the common denominator that runs through all my paintings.
I've explored many mediums but until quite recently, I did not find a medium I was comfortable with.
I spent almost three decades trying to find a medium I was passionate about. I tried classical painting and drawing, silk screening, various crafts and collage which came the closet to satisfying my passion.
Over that time the world of acrylics changed dramatically and I discovered the various gel mediums and the transfer methods. This was the passageway for my artistic expression.
Over the past few years, I have developed a technique that is based on transferring collaged photograph or impasto painting onto an acrylic gel skin which is then incorporated into an acrylic painting creating a hybrid work of art - not purely a photograph or impasto not purely a painting.
The approach which I an still developing and perfecting gives me the 1. mental stimulation and problem solving I require through the creation of the collage phase; 2. the freedom of not having to paint within the lines; 3. the unlimited possibility of color; 4. the liberty to be messy, inexact and spontaneous; and 5. the platform on which to make a statement and leave a message behind - usually something related to social consciousness.
