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Kim Sloane

Over the last few years drawing has become my primary activity. The drawings are not sketches or preparatory studies. They are fully realized works and are intended to stand alone as such. The directness and the rapid change that drawing allows answers my current expressive needs more clearly than painting.

All the drawings are worked from life over long periods. There are three sources behind the work. One is nature, or the motif; either the figure or the landscape. The second is the history of art, the reservoir of images from the past that I love and have become part of my consciousness. The third is the inner life of the imagination.

I want to achieve a volume of space in which the viewer can enter into the very center of the interchange between these worlds. I want a depth that compresses to the surface, then releases, allowing forms to turn and participate in rhythms that extend beyond the surface of the picture.

The subjects are worked in series. The repetition is not to arrive at a final form, but to test and explore an idea or feeling over time, under different conditions. Often a subject exists behind the motif. The subject may emerge after a particular drawing or series is completed. It may appear during the process and either complete the drawing, or provide a motivation to continue. It may exist in my mind before, and give form to the work from the beginning.

--Kim Sloane