WOVEN CANVAS

Particularly in her larger canvases, the impasto evident in her earlier work has given way to the painterly flow of pigment worked in multiple, translucent layers that permit traceries of form to emerge from within one another. Stripping, masking, smudging and dribbling pigment, Brinda uses various objects to leave a variety of markings and imprints on the tonal grounds. Working with roller, brush and knife she succeeds in merging and separating colour, volume, line and texture in interesting combinations of architectonic rhythm. The tilting planes of these colour-fields collectively build a grid that now pushes to carve out inner architectural dimensions in her compositions that achieve a greater depth and equilibrium. In some of her recent paintings this urge to explore untraversed terrain allows spaces to open quite suddenly in the hitherto opaque grounds of her acrylics to reveal glimpses of a deep pulsating void that underlies her abstract expressionist imagery. They seem to indicate the artist's growing need to move beyond known perspectives and provide a slender link to the light within, which has a taut, composite quality and holds the promise of a need to search for reimaging perspectives of uncharted landscapes.

Rich earth tones touched by an inner luminosity dominate Brinda's larger canvases. They are awash with a subtle vibrancy and are set against jewel toned greens, indigoes, turquoise and purples that are often surrounded by swathes of inky blacks, murky greens and smouldering deep blues. In her smaller and medium works these tonal qualities provide an element of surprise as vibrant colours project abstract, stylized forms, which emerge from underlayers of structured geometric grids providing an organic counterfoil to their orderliness. In some of the paintings strips of canvas have literally been woven into rectangular grounds held in wide cut, stylized wood-frames that provide a sculptural grid for extending the compositional space. Brinda invests these works with a delightful spontaneity playing with colour and form with skill and finesse. In these smaller works there is a full flow of experimentation. Impasto is created with unlikely materials like residual acrylic, glass, mirrors, small found materials and fabric imprints which are manipulated into quirky effects. They geometry of sweeping, deep set planes creates the harmony against which nascent form actively reinvents itself spilling onto the painted frames in a flourish of movement.