Igor Shulman

The fences of my childhood., Painting, Oil on Canvas

2023

This study is about the boundaries of anything. Boundaries of light and shadow, color boundaries. Boundaries of what's allowed. Boundaries of the unacceptable. Boundaries of beau...

Something I was again carried away by undressed women. As an image object. I used to draw a lot of them, then I interrupted not for long. I thought that this old age crept on soft p...

"Fence Jumper" is an oil painting with chalk and graphite on wood panel, and measures 16" high by 12" wide. It is finished with a clear resin across the surface, lending the artwork a particular warmth and liquidity that is rare and lovely to behold. Typical of the artist, the painting is a mystery despite its apparent simplicity – a boy, a young lad leaps over the fence, seen here mid-flight. It's clearly important to the boy. His focus and sense of achievement ring out. Drawn lines and painterly brushstrokes render the scene, but also note the toned wood coming through as color and texture. All of it held, as if in time, by the resin layer acting as a lens to both transmit this picture and admit light to the picture. A true artifact. From Will Hudson...

Chambers transforms the pastoral into the extraordinary. Long before she puts paint to a canvas, her artistic process begins with the simple act of paying attention. From the outside looking in...