With this series of work, Ele wanted to create paintings filled with air, light and life. Intricately drawn marks with broad swathes of intense colour. A clarity of line speaking to directness and powerful intention.
She sees her paintings existing in the same space as music or poetry. Experiences to be felt on an emotional level. In the space where words escape us, where visual language becomes more truthful, disclosing our real selves, through mark and metaphor. We are revealed in the marks we make, through our hands to the canvas. It is either an attempt to say more, to be more truthful or to lay bare things unknown to ourselves.
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Ele Pack received her degree from Loughborough College of Art. She now lives and works in Brighton. Ele Pack has worked from her studio in Hove, East Sussex for the past ten years. It used to be an old dairy. It is a light, airy space that is walking distance from the sea. Hope you enjoy the film below offering a glimpse into the artist studio.
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"Using pattern and mark to create rhythm, I use a range of materials; paint, pencil, fabric, collage, metallics, and build up my paintings in a very organic way. I overlay layers of paint, mark and collage to build up the pictorial space. This creates glimpses, hidden spaces, things half_ shown, suggested. I use delicate layers of texture, drawing and colour to create an ambiguous space. The image is then worked and re_worked until the image is “found”. Only when a balance and integration is achieved I feel that the painting is finished."
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"I see my paintings existing like music or poetry. There is not a clear narrative in the paintings, instead they are visual experiences to be felt on an emotional level. I believe in the power of art to lift and transcend. Using an abstract language of mark making that is both personal and universal."
