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LAGSTEIN GALLERY
Working on both canvas and paper, Churchill's process is to create many layers, both thin and thick. Underlayers of drawing use media such as charcoal, oil pastels, and colored pencils. She prefers the echoes of what went on before, "pentimento", sometimes just discernible, reflecting the developing life of the painting.
I have long been attracted to gold and iridescence, not only for the optical excitement, but for the symbolic content - hopeful, otherworldly, precious. In these times of darkness, the need for light is even stronger.
I often use an underlay of transparent oil pastel, masses of marks which are embedded beneath the surface. Even a painting has a past which is echoed on the surface.
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