Myfanwy Pavelic, CM, OBC, CPA, (April 27, 1916 – May 7, 2007) née Spencer, was a Canadian portrait artist.
People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?
The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.
When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.
And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea to fill up time. I just never would do it. Whenever I seemed to have a quiet hole, I would paint. That was what I would choose to do to fill up the time.
Terry McMillan
Ellen Swallow Richards
Andre Beaufre
Ehud Olmert
Jenny Saville
Henry Suso
Elmina Shepard Taylor
Hikaru Nakamura
Jasmine Tookes
Hendrik Lorentz
Margot Wallstrom
Dorothy Stratten