Lara Scolari

My work is produced in an Abstract Expressionist style, with focus on the use of line, organic shape, layering, and colour. I employ a limited palette of warm earthy tones punctuated with grey and white. I am investigating how visual imagery can translate the complexity of emotions, with a range of visual effects, including translucency and softness - gentle luminosity, quiet, understatement (giving clues), subtleness, layering, movement and honesty. I attack each work in a vigorous energetic manner. I aim for depth of layers in my work, and build up each layer using a variety of media and experimental methods. I endeavour to give each line and mark vibrancy, energy, motion, mystery and emotion that the viewer can experience. To see or not to see: the artist's dilemma. Image: Latent Dance, 2009. Oil on Board 1200 x 2400.