Aida Tomescu Crossgrain

Crossgrain is a painting that gives off a certain state, a certain condition, which is like a spirit of place or an intuition. What I wanted to get to was a unified presence, full and ordered with a light and clarity of its own.

Intensively worked, scraped back repeatedly, and reconsidered, Crossgrain is not a painting about texture. Nor is the image trying to create a special illusion of a representative world – though if you want to think in terms of earth, air, the soft steps of the sky, it is all of those things.

I think of Crossgrain more as a space where mood, movement, vibration, the linkages of marks across the surface and their special behaviour form a particular experience.

Aida Tomescu, 2012