MAGGIE PHILO

http://www.maggiephilo.co.uk/  [email protected]

I graduated in 2012 with a BA in Fine Art Painting from Brighton University, but my background is in decorative art.

I work with both oil and acrylic paint on paper and canvas, but I have a particular interest in working on panels made from gesso on board. The result is a fusion of the historical technique of painting with egg tempera and pigment on a traditional ground with abstract composition and experimental techniques. Alongside the tempera paint I apply layers of graphite, charcoal and pastel. Each layer is burnished into the gesso allowing earlier layers to emerge. These works are often made as a response to found marks observed on my travels.

Other paintings have no subject and no planned outcome. Marks are made quickly and instinctively, then edited. Some I obliterate and then I respond to those that remain, making decisions based purely on the lines, colour, shape and texture.