GINNY GRAYSON

It is important to me that I remain working from an intuitive basis in my practice: it is the process, working with the materials and work itself as it evolves, that holds my attention. I prefer not to work with preconceived ideas as I find the ‘expectation’ that is generated by this kind of thinking only produces added anxiety to the process and sometimes leads to the work being contrived and controlled rather than freshly responsive to the object or subject at hand.

The aesthetics are what interest me, especially composition and figure-ground relationships, and I find there is a very fine line between manipulating elements to convey an idea or feeling I have or have had, and allowing them to manipulate me. I usually struggle with ideas that come to me as being too obvious or literal so more often than not it is the things that happen via experiment or by accident that work most successfully for me.

Usually when beginning a drawing I prefer to work with the subject at hand from an abstract level, working from the inner axis out, feeling my way through the interrelating forms. As the form in its entirety emerges I feel a dissatisfaction preferring to keep the drawing relatively loose, ambiguous and abstract in its overall composition. I don’t wish to define form clearly but rather convey the perceptual ambiguities that I experience when making the work.

I love line and feeling my way with line, preferring the imagery to remain inconclusive in its visual nature.

Ginny Grayson 2009