Ayesha Samdani
Land
scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
create a painting. In abstract painting all you have is colors,to create harmony, rythym, balance and compotion which in my opinion is harder then traditional painting. After all the struggles, learnings and adjustments, I am happy and staisfied with my current painting style and I can proudly say that I have found my voice. Now I enjoy painting abstract more then landscapes. No matter where ever you move, one thing never changes, The color of sky, trees and water, they make me feel connected to my roots and inspiration to my work.
The theme of my work is based on nature’s colors and changing seasons. I aim to capture organic shapes found in nature, on my painting surface. I take picture of leave, flowers and branches to look for unique organic shapes which becomes the starting point in my work. Using oil paints as my primary medium, I add paint directly with brush to create organic shapes. My painting process evolves by adding layers with large and small brushes, some times I pour paint directly on canvas to add drips. Since,I paint in layers and oil paints take longer to
dry, I paint bunch of paintings together so if one is wet I can move on to next. Each painting has between 10 to 20 layers. Most of my paint layers are translucent, these layers shows the traces. I work small to large scale paintings. I have explored both canvas and wood surfaces for oil paint medium and I enjoy working with on both. For silk painting my setup is little different. I use 100% silk and silk chiffon and I dye them with jacquard silk dyes with silk stretched tightly on a frame. I treate dyes as paints and use the same layering process with brush on silk which I use for oil paintigs. I love how dyes spread on silk once you add a brush stroke, colors are more vibrant and luxurious on silk. Once the process is completed I then steam silk for hours to set the dyes. Finished product is sold as a wearable art, scarves and shirts. If I get the opportunity I would love to do a silk installation.
My paintings are painted instinctively. While painting I think about visual vocab-