PIGMENTS SET IN WET CHALK

When you think of a fresco, you will immediately make an association with the past.

... rightly so, because the tradition is very old and goes back far before our era.

Pigments set in wet lime

Fresco technique is all about pigments and wet lime.

Pigments are applied in a wet plaster layer on a wall or in a cave. The wet medium absorbes the pigments and after drying, a crystallised/ petrified integral body is created in which the pigments are captured.

That's where my abstract contemporary art meets the frescos from the past.

My frescos are made of several layers of wet lime plaster and pigments. In that sense they are even related to graffiti, where new visuals constantly replace the previous.

My frescos are contemporary. The work is abstract and the process is very labour-intensive, composed of myriad layers on linen canvas, where happenstance, imperfection and irregularity are cherished. Through 'craquelure', oxidation and erosion, underlying sections appear that blend with the upper layers. The ultimate result can be seen as a mirror of our lives, formed layer-on-layer by events along the way, but above all leaves all the space to the viewer to add meaning with their own imagination.

Attribution Photos:

• Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Italy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam

• Dolphin Fresco, Knossos, Crete, Greece.

https://www.worldhistory.org/image/393/dolphin-fresco-knossos-crete/

• Flora, Pompeii, (Museo Archeologico Napoli) Italy.

https://www.pinterest.it/pin/321163017152974336/

• Chauvet horses, Ardèche, France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave

• Exhibition 2024, © Linda Overzee
• MNEMOSYNE,  © Linda Overzee

• Detail of my work in progress,  © Linda Overzee

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