Isis Olivier

Recently, I have been working on a series of monochrome paintings. One of the things I love about monochrome is its potential to resemble drawing, which is fundamental to my work. Drawing often captures an immediacy, a spontaneity, more successfully than painting and that is what I’m looking for.

Over the past year I have been working in parallel on a series of landscape paintings and nudes. By using strong line and working with a palette knife, I want to show as much as possible without overstating, not too many lines, just enough to suggest the subject. In this way, the painting sometimes vergers on the abstract.