The Mountain Holds Us by Emma Digerud-White
Recent painting created in Residency at Krowji, Redruth. 240x180cm acrylic on canvas.
Artist Statement Emma Digerud-White
I paint because no one told me to. I paint because I chose it. I paint to hold onto what I know to be true. I paint for love. I paint for pain. I paint to capture the depths of everything that can be held, in a split second, but can never be described with words. I paint to show we are here. I paint to show I’m alive.
Emotions and energies become colour and movement within my work. Figures are present with their inner landscapes spilling out as they merge and join with the spaces and people around them. I use paint, colour and marks to capture the hidden depths I see and feel.
Love, devotion, desolation, clarity, confusion and confrontation are all themes I visit within my work as I explore what it means to be here and now; as a woman, as a mother, as a human, as a witness.
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