Bethany Whitfield

These pieces of work 'Cracked Paintings’ illustrate my attempt at creating art which holds a similar aesthetic to the ‘Found Paintings’.

These canvasses are prepared from material such as cotton and hessian, then primed with a traditional medium of gesso which is made from rabbit skin glue and chalk. Through experimentation and manipulation of the gesso I have created a succession of marks and cracks in the canvas, similar to the surface of the found objects.

Shown in exhibit, I hope to demonstrate to the viewer the overall formation of the relationship between found and created objects.