Colette Vermeulen, Christine McVie, 2020, Screenprint
While living in Arizona, Colette Vermeulen was struck by the wide landscape, endless horizon and the intense sunsets and moonrises that happen simultaneously. She started sketching the horizons with coloured torn and cut-out paper, as shown here. For this artwork, Vermeulen was inspired by someone else also, whose influence can be seen in the use of pure circles and triangles. Who might that influence have been?
Vermeulen spent time at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. According to her, the experience of working in Frank Lloyd Wright’s drafting studio influenced her art since it encouraged her to eliminate unnecessary aspects and to stop using perspective. Vermeulen preferred this to her usual way of working as it allows the viewer to be sucked into the artwork.
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