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ExhibitionsNOW SHOWING3 x 3 2D Exhibition - Featuring Darryl Frost, Aralyn Doiron, Dean Raybould - Opening 6pm Monday 23rd January 2012 AraLyn Doiron reverse-paintings on reclaimed windows These images are painted backwards on glass... I painted my first window at 14 yrs old. Students in my small town painted the shop windows as a Christmas scholarship fundraiser. I was instantly hooked on the mind puzzle of painting backwards! After two decades working professionally as an artist and commercial illustrator and sculptor, I was preparing for an exhibit, and on a lark, painted on some old windows my carpenter husband brought home from a renovation. It was good for me to release the control of my work over to the technique and see what magic can happen! Painting on glass is truly an exercise in letting go. Everything I understand about making a painting flies right out the window when the canvas is transparent and the back of the piece is actually the front! Painting happens in a reverse order: finishing touches, highlights, shading, etc. go on first instead of last. Once the first paint is on the glass, the original sketch is obscured and I am, in a sense, painting ≥blind≈. I have little notion of what the piece actually looks like until I flip the window over. The only way to change things once finished, is to scrape and start again! This has forced me to check perfectionism at the door and play. The lack of control has resulted in a sort of primitive simplicity and spontaneity which seems to suit the things these images want to talk about!
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