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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions (H/W/D): 130 by 100 by 6 cm.
Year made: 2005
Framed: As per artist instructions
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It is vital to me when creating a piece that the layers of meaning imbibed in image as a whole emerge through a layering of both thought processes and painting processes. I was inspired to create ‘Grizzly’ one heated summer, when the course of events in my life were running an increasingly fiery route themselves, twisting it seemed, now growling, now transporting themselves between the fine lines that divide memory from experience and imagination from reality.
I was confronted, one such tangled summers’ evening, with a children’s book, designed, it seemed, to introduce young human creatures to their young animal counterparts living in the wild. I was taken in by a short series of images of grizzly bear cubs shot in various poses- now lounging in the long grass playing with butterflies, now gazing lazily into a stream on the off-chance of spying a likely-looking salmon.
The thing that struck me deeply about these images was two-fold:- firstly, I was captivated by their almost-finished forms, as if they had been caught unsuspectingly during their transformation from being helpless bundles of fluff to being enormous and powerful hunting machines, and that they were at a quivering interim phase- caught mid-sentence if you will- a very delicate few months between cub-hood and fully-fledged bear. On a second, and perhaps more sinister level, I began to look on their softly-rounded haunches and fluffy-looking muzzles as a mere guise, a distraction to the naïve onlooker (or the butterfly or salmon) who would sorely regret taking these creatures to be anything less than wild and formidable creatures- underdeveloped perhaps, but flinchingly close to full empowerment, and unpredictable to boot.
This difference in perception-the young creature as a cuter and more innocent version of the animal that is to come versus the young creature as a developing being teetering on the very verge of realization, comprised of pure force and potential- it was this that sparked my interest and what I intended to capture in this piece, and it was this that somewhat adjusted or clarified my relationship with the little girl who let me borrow her book.
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Alice White
The compelling energy of my work is a plundering of documentation, a revisiting of people or places which are half-remembered. I am fascinated by that which can be captured by an image, and that which lies on the periphery of vision, perhaps caught in a brushstroke but never entirely contained. Moments of beauty, of intensity, of tragedy gradually become abstract source material, guiding the emotive power of my paintings.
The subject of my work is at once figurative, referring to...
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