Betty Simonides

Spatial painting and research

Betty Simonides works on the basis of a concept in which the flat surface is the starting point.
In her work she studies the materiality of paint, the relation pigment-binder and the relation of paint to medium. She is also concerned with the relationship between spatiality and painterly experience.

Betty Simonides on these series of six watercolor on paper works:

… should there be a beginning …

In response to events in a work, a series of works, I ask myself again what to investigate.
Is the subject color, material, light, size, plane, action, time.

Then I work from a fixed concept in regular intervals.

consecutive