I think that the fundamental dichotomy for all painters is the struggle to find a coherent path between form and content. Many stay in the purist territory of form, paint for paint’s sake, and many stay in the realm of ideas, slipping over surfaces, playing with the language of content.

 

Both are wonderful options, but I believe that there is also a path which meanders through both; where you can “play in the mud” whilst reconciling the materiality of paint with the ideas captured on the surface of a painting.



Recent and upcoming events:

 

Speaker at TRAC 2019

 

Articles for TRACT

The Anthropocentric and the Anthropocene: Can Imagination Push Open the Limits of Painting?

 

Cerla & Kloosterboer in Conversation [Part I]

Cerla & Kloosterboer in Conversation [Part II]

Cerla & Kloosterboer in Conversation [Part III]

 

Aphantasia part of

Extreme Imagination: inside the mind’s eye at Tramway Arts in Glasgow

Catalogue now available online

 

Couple: We Worship Our Icons / Helge

selected for DRAW 18 at the Menier Gallery

 

I have finally moved into the world of online connectivity so please follow me on:

https://www.instagram.com/elinacerla/

https://www.facebook.com/elina.cerla.art/

 

TRAC 2018 Conference Paper

Forging a Figurative Language through the Convergence of Form, Content and Process

 

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