I often start a painting with searing intensity, without fixed ideas--my only focus being my model, her rhythm and her movement.
Then, I start searching for ideas that can be eked out of the total chaos that has taken over and seek to inject some kind of order into the painting. At this point the painting can evolve in unexpected ways—everything present, everything that helped to create the chaos and that which finally brought order back to it, has left its mark.
At times I follow the model’s lead and stay true to it… At other times, I follow my own path and find myself at the threshold where the abstract and figurative mingle.
Each person can project their personal vision; see their own emotions reflected there.
Then, I start searching for ideas that can be eked out of the total chaos that has taken over and seek to inject some kind of order into the painting. At this point the painting can evolve in unexpected ways—everything present, everything that helped to create the chaos and that which finally brought order back to it, has left its mark.
At times I follow the model’s lead and stay true to it… At other times, I follow my own path and find myself at the threshold where the abstract and figurative mingle.
Each person can project their personal vision; see their own emotions reflected there.
The emotional dimension of art work is what most interests me. I try to infuse my work with my sensibilities--my vision of the world, and if my universe has some effect on any one else--then I’ve accomplished what I set out to do.
I am especially in touch with the raw material: I like to work it, scrape it, glue it, make it run, heap it on … I exploit serendipity: those unexpected discoveries that influence my work and its subject most of the time. I take what comes my way.
My preferred subject is the human being: a fragile and ephemeral creature! The body in motion, its expressiveness, its strength, beauty, and pain: these themes are unfailing.
Emma Verschaever - painter
I am especially in touch with the raw material: I like to work it, scrape it, glue it, make it run, heap it on … I exploit serendipity: those unexpected discoveries that influence my work and its subject most of the time. I take what comes my way.
My preferred subject is the human being: a fragile and ephemeral creature! The body in motion, its expressiveness, its strength, beauty, and pain: these themes are unfailing.
Emma Verschaever - painter