Theresa Rule
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My process is an intuitive one. I don't work from photographs or sketches I don’t always have a specific view in mind when I paint. I will start with a mark, a colour, a memory, a word or piece of music in my head and go from there.
I begin each painting with a period of ‘play’ or experimentation, moving paint, mark-making, trying out ideas. Sometimes I sand my paintings back after a few layers of paint, revealing interesting textures and surprising marks. And then I begin to layer again.
I enjoy trying to communicate without words when putting a piece of work together, for me I like to make my paintings a visual journey, where the discovery of small details within the work helps build a story or evokes an emotion within the viewer that draws them back to the piece again and again.
I’ve always been drawn to the layers and texture within a piece and so my art includes the use of line work, inks, pencils, collage and experimenting with different tools away from the brush, that helps create different one-off marks.