Nadia Ayari’s new paintings feature vibrant pink flowers — a composite of species based on jasmines popular in her home country of Tunisia — on bold, solid-colored backgrounds. While firmly in the realm of painting, they contain a sculptural element in the heavy material quality of the surface.
The painting process is inherently exacting, as she builds the surface with precision, embracing the messiness of oil while also meticulously controlling it. She is constantly mixing palettes to achieve nuanced gradients. Each painting has three or four palettes, to which she adds solvent and uses smaller brushes as the colors become more specific.
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