KIM DARLING - Artist Statement

 

My work celebrates the fragile and impermanent relationships between visual perceptions, preconceptions and our world as we experience it in our day-to-day living –as well as the inherent nature of the materials of art-making.

 

Subtle changes and moments of interaction, perceived over time, are incorporated into the image.  When the subject of the work is another human being – who also perceives and feels and engages in the interaction – the relationship between painter and subject becomes even more complex, and these complexities are interwoven into, and recorded in, the language of the medium.

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Each medium brings with it it’s own rhythm and it’s own demands.  Drawing is athletic and flexible – it’s bare-bones approach reaching directly to the core and structure of a situation.  Painting is voluptuous, demanding and greedy for time.  Printmaking processes weave together time and emotion at a cadence all their own, the hidden violence of erosions revealing never-expected situations to be tamed, exploited or scraped away – all part of producing and recording glimpses of a life.