Lucinda McDonald

76 x 102

acrylic and house paint on canvas

Initially I started this painting when I was feeling anxious and
stressed. I was trying to relax and distract myself - painting in a
bold, uninhibited expressive way. But as the composition
developed, with the intentional minimal colour palette , I had to
finetune , consider and control the placement of colour and
shapes on the canvas. Focussed and absorbed in the painting.
The process itself being a calming, mindful experience. In
Decompress The Anxiety I continue working with shapes and
colour and space linking the paintings with my steel sculptural
work often using the similar shapes in both.

Lucinda McDonald
England Born Artist Lucinda McDonald`s abstract, experimental
paintings and sculptures continually strive to create balanced
compositions, through the systematic, playful approach she
takes with colour, line and shape. Finding some harmony
against a certain tension. In her sculptures she works
principally with recycled steel with an acute appreciation of
revitalising existing forms, pushing the medium creating
surfaces & compositions that belie the material. Careful
consideration on how individual shapes work together
constructing playful, lyrical abstracted assemblages and
paintings .
Organic in her process, Lucinda subconsciously draws on
displacement and her past, with a childhood  spent in South
Africa and then returning to the UK. Now living in the Southern
Highlands .