Friday 14 November 2008

etheral paintings by elisabeth werp

one of my favourite norwegian artists, elisabeth bjørnsen werp. she works in egg tempera, and uses many layers of paint, coal, paint, tempera, ash, marble dust, lead, sink, chemicals and metal dust, giving the layers rough a treatment, etching in, scraping off, burning(!), and crackling. the result is strangely etheral, like a distant memory.





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