The Delegation Tom McGlynn Helsen begins each new painting

Helsen begins each new painting by carefully mixing and diluting her acrylic paints

until each one achieves its individual sense of realization and harmony

in an abstract form

It derives from the series Color as Adjective

opaque colours

The Delegation Tom McGlynn Helsen begins each new paintingThe technique Johnson employs is extremely rigorous, involving, as he says, pushing paint around with palette knives and drywall tools rather than brushes. The scraping and sanding creates a variety of different textures and leads to the emergence of unexpected forms. Johnson has said he does not believe in inspiration. Instead, he believes in evolution. He is motivated by process. Rather than being planned ahead of time, the work emerges through a