Artist Insights: Petra Schott
In this Artist Insights film, German artist Petra Schott visits the Jackson’s Studio to discuss how she uses the unconscious in her freestyle abstract paintings, why it is sometimes necessary to ‘kill your darlings’ to move forward in your work, and her deep love of oils and oil sticks. Artist Insights: Petra Schott Contents 0:00 “Painting is one way to explore the unconscious” 0:38 Introduction 1:00 “My wish was to be a psychoanalyst” 1:42 “People ask me “how I could move from law to painting” 3:49 “Art school taught me how to go deeper” 4:19 “My work is always a mixture of figurative and abstract” 4:52 “You can put more emotion into abstract painting” 5:17 “My theme is my life” 6:17 “I can’t limit a painting to what my original intention was” 7:00 “Sometimes I start painting blindly with my left hand” 7:44 “I use brushes and my fingers” 8:37 “My scribbles are not always meant to be readable” 9:17 “I love painting on raw canvas” 10:09 “Kill your darlings” 11:23 “I love the finesse of Cy Twombly” 12:46 “I mostly use oil paints for their texture and saturation” 14:54 “Oil sticks give an extra touch to …
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