2023 | Deborah Fallas

During my residency in Collemacchia, my key focus was to experiment. I am a painter who normally paints the natural landscape in my immediate environment, but while at The Museum of Loss and Renewal, my investigation was into the idea that not every piece of work has to be finished, or resolved. My time was spent exploring my own work and the local environment, moving between the indoor studio and the outdoors as studio.

Experimenting means using materials, techniques, mark making and colour palettes that are different or new to me, and creating textures. This was a time to play and to see where that took me, while being open to opportunities to simplify and abstract my work.

Being in the company of artists from across the world was another important component of my residency, and wass valuable because art can be a very solitary business. I feel that this chance to reflect, explore and develop had only a profound and positive influence on my painting, and how and where I position myself in the art world.

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