Liquid Lunch Podcast - Liquid Lunch RAW Artists Special: Audrey Lawson

Published: Dec. 9, 2016, midnight

Audrey works in a variety of mediums including pencil, charcoal and oil paint. She works on canvas and BFK Reeves Paper, executing preliminary studies on newsprint and drawing paper. In her current series entitled Repose. Reframe. Audrey began with a single pose: a nude female with her arms raised overhead. Her early works in the series were classically executed as she learned more about the physiology of the body in this pose. As she became familiar with the image, she began to explore and experiment with more formal elements of the composition. Audrey produces countless preliminary charcoal drawings, each one evolving and becoming more abstracted from the previous one. From an extensive pile of drawings, Audrey selects images she find most intriguing and continues exploring them on canvas and/or BFK Reeves paper in charcoal and oil paint. In speaking of the Repose. Reframe. figures, Audrey describe their Repose a state of rest, sleep, or tranquility. Reframe to frame or express (word