Caterina Arciprete

Dream's Way

2023

ink and pastel on paper

ink and pastel on paper

ink and pastel on paper

ink and pastel on paper

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell

Pastel on paper Framed 65 x 85 cm

Pen on round canvas. Certificate of authenticity by the Artist.

About the artist : Maria Teresa Bertina , painter and sculptor, Silver Medal de l'Académie des Arts, Sciences et Lettres France. Portuguese origin, was born in 1953, lives in Brazil ...