Rise 1 Emma Godebska including painting

including painting

These piles of found papers around the studio have become the means of making work on paper by using them as her starting point

This is a form of keying

This acrylic painting on linen is one of a series of 10 that the artist developed from a painting that incorporated a photograph she took of a flatbed truck used for transporting cars

such as repeatedly applying brushstrokes of colour to the canvas

Rise 1 Emma Godebska including paintingThe threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a transparency is created that allows the viewer to enter through the lines onto the painted surface. The titles of each series can be interpreted as emotional, psychological and physical conditions. This work, part of the series called Rise is inspired by city silhouettes of buildings. Their bold shapes subtlely deconstruct