PROCESSES OF ADDING ACTUAL TEXTURE IN MIXED MEDIA PAINTING USING WOOD SHAVING WASTES AND CAM WOOD PIGMENT ON LOCALLY WOVEN SUBSTRATES

Abstract

In painting, aside from colour, texture is one of the elements that arouses interest, sustains attention and as well contributes in making meaning especially in mixed media. To create or add actual texture, flexibility in contemporary painting has accommodated the inclusion of diverse media such as wood wastes and the likes. Unfortunately, the exploration of wood in art from available evidences has been largely a sculpture affair despite its abundance within the local environment. This study is a derivative of Marthin Heidegger’s theory on perception and phenomenology which argues that basically any object exists as a perception of the mind. This studio engagement is deliberate in showing the processes involved in exploiting the textural potentials of wood chips in combination with cam wood pigments to produce actual textured abstract expressions using mosaic technique on woven substrates as grounds. The paper recommends among others, that artists should return to pick from their cultural roots that are rich in both content and materials. The explorations have exposed more alternative materials available to the painter, and broadened the scope of the media for expressions in painting through re-contextualization and conceptualization of abundantly available materials which before now were known to be only waste and craft respectively.