ESS HOFLICK
  • Paintings and Drawings
    • Works in Progress
    • 2021-2022 No Words for Feelings
    • 2020-2021 Grey Matter
    • 2019/20 Unnaming - Karsh Masson Gallery
    • 2019- Beginner's Mind
    • 2018 Contemplating the Speed of Light
    • 2017 Arctic Circles
    • 2016 Drawings of the Yukon
    • 2015 Collective Imagination
    • 2014 Paintings of the Unseen
    • 2011 -14 Imagined Landscapes
  • not paintings
    • videos
      • 2018 Mourning for the Centre of the Night
      • 2018 Incantation
      • 2018 Holograms
      • 2012/14 White line
      • 2009 The Yellow Line Project
    • Installations
      • 2019 Crucial to Understanding (WIP)
      • 2018 Unknowable
      • 2018 Hot Air
      • 2018 20 years, 20 Secrets
      • 2009 Bring to Light
    • Ice
      • 2018 Ice Pillow
      • 2016 Melting in Your Hands
      • 2012 Water Bombing
      • 2011 Slide Lantern
      • 2010 Message Lanterns
      • 2010 Ice Pillows 1
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  • Paintings and Drawings
    • Works in Progress
    • 2021-2022 No Words for Feelings
    • 2020-2021 Grey Matter
    • 2019/20 Unnaming - Karsh Masson Gallery
    • 2019- Beginner's Mind
    • 2018 Contemplating the Speed of Light
    • 2017 Arctic Circles
    • 2016 Drawings of the Yukon
    • 2015 Collective Imagination
    • 2014 Paintings of the Unseen
    • 2011 -14 Imagined Landscapes
  • not paintings
    • videos
      • 2018 Mourning for the Centre of the Night
      • 2018 Incantation
      • 2018 Holograms
      • 2012/14 White line
      • 2009 The Yellow Line Project
    • Installations
      • 2019 Crucial to Understanding (WIP)
      • 2018 Unknowable
      • 2018 Hot Air
      • 2018 20 years, 20 Secrets
      • 2009 Bring to Light
    • Ice
      • 2018 Ice Pillow
      • 2016 Melting in Your Hands
      • 2012 Water Bombing
      • 2011 Slide Lantern
      • 2010 Message Lanterns
      • 2010 Ice Pillows 1
  • CV
  • About
  • Contact
I make work about the entangled relationship between nonsense meaning. I see this interconnection to be profound. The knot shaped plaster surfaces will embody this profundity.

The substrate of these plaster knot-shaped reliefs is made with acid free paper pulp mixed with plaster and PVA glue. I spread this material in a large flat panel approximately 1/4” thick. I then pour pottery plaster over the hardened substrate in knotted patterns, allowing layers to dry before adding more. I cut away the unnecessary sections of the substrate layer to create the knotted shape. The substrate reinforces the pottery plaster creating a strong yet lightweight object. The substrate can also be drilled and screwed, thus hanging mechanisms can be firmly attached. I’ve completed the research to arrive at this process in my home studio over the past three years.

I will be painting on these surfaces with oil paint mixed with an emulsion which allows oil paint to dry properly on plaster. Marks can also be made with drawing materials and sandpaper.


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  • Paintings and Drawings
    • Works in Progress
    • 2021-2022 No Words for Feelings
    • 2020-2021 Grey Matter
    • 2019/20 Unnaming - Karsh Masson Gallery
    • 2019- Beginner's Mind
    • 2018 Contemplating the Speed of Light
    • 2017 Arctic Circles
    • 2016 Drawings of the Yukon
    • 2015 Collective Imagination
    • 2014 Paintings of the Unseen
    • 2011 -14 Imagined Landscapes
  • not paintings
    • videos
      • 2018 Mourning for the Centre of the Night
      • 2018 Incantation
      • 2018 Holograms
      • 2012/14 White line
      • 2009 The Yellow Line Project
    • Installations
      • 2019 Crucial to Understanding (WIP)
      • 2018 Unknowable
      • 2018 Hot Air
      • 2018 20 years, 20 Secrets
      • 2009 Bring to Light
    • Ice
      • 2018 Ice Pillow
      • 2016 Melting in Your Hands
      • 2012 Water Bombing
      • 2011 Slide Lantern
      • 2010 Message Lanterns
      • 2010 Ice Pillows 1
  • CV
  • About
  • Contact