Acrylic Painting
Miriam Wells
Miriam Wells is a contemporary abstract expressive painter whose practice spans lyrical floral still life and true abstract expressionism.
Artist Profile
Miriam Wells is a contemporary abstract expressive painter whose work spans lyrical floral still life and true abstract expressionism.
She’s fascinated by growth and seasonal change – and how these processes are both fast and slow simultaneously. Her practice is anchored by the simple art of paying attention in small green spaces – and how this opens up new worlds. Through this small lens of vessels, petals and ponds, wonder lives in every brushstroke. With a degree in Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong, and experience as an academic in art history, dramaturgy and creative writing theory, Mim has recently shifted her creative practice from writing to painting, embracing an expressionist’s toolkit of bold strokes and emotive abstraction, with a decadent’s obsession with beauty, abundance and decay.
Artist Interview
What medium do you work with, and why have you chosen them?
Acrylic, as well as oil pastels and oil sticks. Acrylics are because I'm impatient! I love the immediacy of the medium, and the opportunity to realise ideas at speed. I also work with a lot of painting mediums like impasto and gel, to add body and texture to the piece so it leaps off the canvas. Pastels and oil sticks are to add detail, highlights and those organic, hand-drawn marks that make a painting feel personal.
How does your artwork get from initial concept to exhibition stage?
Through sheer bloody mindedness and a rollercoaster of inspiration, confidence, enthusiasm, doubt, terror and relief.
Can you tell us a little more about your creative working environment/studio?
It's organised chaos, and no matter how I try to impose a system on it I am constantly misplacing my green gold (one of my favourite paint colours). It's a small space, but brightly lit and with a view of the garden. The other half of it is the laundry so it's a real work horse of a studio!
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