Calming the Chaos
Calming the Chaos Artist Sebastian Blanck's work reminds us to look for small, beautiful, intimate moments in our own lives November 4, 2020 Laura Beausire SleddingSebastian BlanckOil on canvas, 8 x 10 inchestayloepiggottgallery.com THE ARTIST Sebastian Blanck A NATURAL “Painting was just a natural choice for me. I had been drawing all my life, so working in two dimensions was my preferred way of thinking and working and learning about color and composition. It felt like a language that I really understood.” PLAYING WITH PAINT “What I really like to do is let the material speak for itself. With the snow images, I’m really playing with the idea of the white of the surface, and using that as a foundational aspect of the image. It allows me to be very open with the paint, and somewhat minimal, so I can think of it almost as an abstraction, but populate it with figures, and sleds ...Read more