'Her sensuous, richly coloured paintings are starkly contemporary yet also speak to the sumptuous studies Édouard Manet made when he was confined to bed in the final year of his life. Each begins with photographs, which she reduces to a line drawing that, in turn, is transferred to aluminium panels. She paints onto the flat metal sheets, mixing colours while she works, and pushing the paint on the panel. Woods then creates collages – using thousands of pieces of painted paper saved up over years. Such is the drawn-out process that, she says, “it is almost going back into the painting and seeing what else is there”.
Image: Clare Woods, Woolworth’s Roses, 2023
Oil on aluminium
125 x 95 cm
© Clare Woods
Courtesy the artist
May 28 2024
