Oil Monotype On Paper Edition of Dimensions (WxH): 38 x 45cm
Mercer is interested in capturing moments of everyday life. Her drawings and watercolours made from observation are used to inform larger paintings and oil monotypes made in the studio. Recent bodies of work depict people in shopping centres, children in playgrounds and gardeners and farmers at work. Her quick drawings of moving figures are used to create imaginative compositions using loose brushstrokes that imply action and movement through space. In the summer of 2024, while on a residency in Tuscany she drew farmers in polytunnels. Working directly from observation, she was interested in capturing the vitality and immediacy of figures as they worked within the environment. Moving subjects, the changing of weather and places in flux are subjects that Mercer finds most exhilarating. The quick drawings made on location subsequently informed this series of monotypes. The figure is seen but part remembered. Choppy visible brushstrokes echo the movement of the figure, the paint is scrapped and wiped. Through improvisation, wiping, smearing, rubbing onto the monotype surface Mercer grapples with forms, yielding both formal and emotional insights. Colours might become abstracted within the picture generating new rhythms and sensations.
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Oil Monotype On Paper Edition of Dimensions (WxH): 38 x 45cm
Mercer is interested in capturing moments of everyday life. Her drawings and watercolours made from observation are used to inform larger paintings and oil monotypes made in the studio. Recent bodies of work depict people in shopping centres, children in playgrounds and gardeners and farmers at work. Her quick drawings of moving figures are used to create imaginative compositions using loose brushstrokes that imply action and movement through space. In the summer of 2024, while on a residency in Tuscany she drew farmers in polytunnels. Working directly from observation, she was interested in capturing the vitality and immediacy of figures as they worked within the environment. Moving subjects, the changing of weather and places in flux are subjects that Mercer finds most exhilarating. The quick drawings made on location subsequently informed this series of monotypes. The figure is seen but part remembered. Choppy visible brushstrokes echo the movement of the figure, the paint is scrapped and wiped. Through improvisation, wiping, smearing, rubbing onto the monotype surface Mercer grapples with forms, yielding both formal and emotional insights. Colours might become abstracted within the picture generating new rhythms and sensations.
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