Jill Sorensen's Synthesizer at Whitespace
"My paintings explore these concerns through both material and process. My 'paint' is a synthetic, hi-tech development of encaustic, the ancient painting technique in which pigment is bound in a mix of bee's wax and tree resin. "My paintings explore these concerns through both material and process. My 'paint' is a synthetic, hi-tech development of encaustic, the ancient painting technique in which pigment is bound in a mix of bee's wax and tree resin."In my encaustic recipe transparent high-gloss synthetic heat sensitive resins replace tree resin. Synthetic pigments replace naturally occurring pigments to create 'plastic colours' colours that refer to the continuous plastic surface of the synthetic rather than to the multifaceted subtleties of nature.
"As an artist at the crumbling end of postmodernism I find myself faced with a perceived impossibility of being author of the authentic mark. Yet there is also a futility in attempting to avoid it."
Jill Sorensen, 2004
Synthesizer, an exhibition of encaustic works.
Whitespace, 1 Morgan St Newmarket
13-29 July