Pauline De Four
I am a proud recipient of the Jaime Simmons Memorial Award as a graduate of the Visual and Digital Arts program at Humber College. Sheridan College has also contributed to my artistic training with a Certificate in Illustration. Membership in a number of art organizations enables me to remain contemporary. Exhibitions in locations such as Toronto, Ohio, British Columbia and Vienna have allowed my art to be introduced to a wider audience. Volunteering my services in workshops, art events and ArtReach programs have assisted me in engaging with the public and the art community in meaningful ways. I support accessibility in the creative arts and opportunities that allow for art to be appreciated by everyone.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
As a visual and mixed media artist based in the Greater Toronto area, I am knowledgeable in a variety of mixed media that includes ink, charcoal, coloured pencil, acrylic, watercolour, oil, chalks and graphite, with an interest in scratchboard and the exploration of creative new ways of working and presenting in this medium.
I am a proud recipient of the Jaime Simmons Memorial Award as a graduate of the Visual and Digital Arts program at Humber College. Sheridan College has also contributed to my artistic training with a Certificate in Illustration. Membership in a number of art organizations enables me to remain contemporary. Exhibitions in locations such as Toronto, Ohio, British Columbia and Vienna have allowed my art to be introduced to a wider audience. Volunteering my services in workshops, art events and ArtReach programs have assisted me in engaging with the public and the art community in meaningful ways. I support accessibility in the creative arts and opportunities that allow for art to be appreciated by everyone.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
As a visual and mixed media artist based in the Greater Toronto area, I am knowledgeable in a variety of mixed media that includes ink, charcoal, coloured pencil, acrylic, watercolour, oil, chalks and graphite, with an interest in scratchboard and the exploration of creative new ways of working and presenting in this medium.
$990.00
Scratchboard paper.
28x22"
COME A LITTLE CLOSER is one of a 2-part hand gestures series in the exploration of emotion. Confronted with the commanding imagery does one come closer and obey the command? Or take a different stance. Dimensionality and depth gains form in the application of traditional scratchboarding techniques.
$990.00
Scratchboard paper.
28x22"
WANT YOU is one of a 2-part hand gestures series in the exploration of emotion. Confronted with the commanding imagery of this piece, viewers must decide, does one obey the command? Or take a different stance. Dimensionality and depth gains form in the application of traditional scratchboarding techniques.
$1,000.00
Scratchboard and india ink.
28x22"
PRINCE & KINGS is a scratchboard artwork that creates patterning, texture and allows for movement and dimension to shine within the scratchboard medium through hatching, stippling, cross-hatching, and the manipulation of sharp tools that aid different degrees of ink and clay removal to render the figures. Strategic colourizing supports the narrative and brings further visual interest.
$900.00
Scratchboard paper.
24x18"
The gentle falling of SNOWFLAKES II evokes a winterscape wonderland. Scrapings with sharp tools, on scratchboard in black and white, creates a composition that is cool, light and breezy.
$500.00
Scratchboard and india ink.
12x9"
When thinking of wildlife, forests and natural landscapes come to mind. But what does it look like when humanity encroaches upon nature? Habitat Displacement provides a glimpse into the reality of a species of the wild that has been forced to forage in a concrete jungle. Utilizing the scratchboard medium, the Raccoon perches forlornly and prominently on a windowsill. IN THE WILD takes on a whole new meaning. Who is the beast in this reality?
Habitat replaced or displaced? The viewer is left to judge.
$1,575.00
Acrylic, collage and scratchboard on canvas.
24x30"
KING PORTRAIT COLLAGE explores achieving more 3-dimensional representation with
the scratchboard medium and a recognizable image. Utilizing an application technique that the artist refers to as 'Sculptural Scratchboard', expands traditional scratchboarding beyond the 2-dimensional plane. Collage applications and mixed media, encourages an experience in contemporary experimentation.
$650.00
Scratchboard and india ink.
7x5"
Why do we create? How do we create? There are a multitude of avenues to achieve a creative piece. JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE is a scratchboard artwork that seeks to identify scratchboard as a fine art consideration. Let's hand it to the beauty of choice within this medium and the many sharp tools of the trade to achieve amazing artistic results.
$750.00
Charcoal on stonehenge paper.
30x22"
Rendered in charcoal, DOMINOE EFFECT directs movement across
Stonehenge paper. Repetition contributes visually to the sense of motion, as the uniform images systematically occupy different real estate on this fine art substrate.
$1,200.00
Oil on canvas.
24x24"
Drawing upon the art movement known as cubism, CRANIUM marries abstract perspective with that of representational head forms to balance the composition.
$1,400.00
Acrylic and modeling paste on canvas.
30x24"
How do shapes and colour representations relate to one another? Are they relatable to abstraction and deconstruction? Through employing triad, complements, monochrome, square, and analogous colour schemes and different colour values, these colour harmonies realize into a cohesive piece. Organic forms of various shapes and sizes are meant to add interest and movement to the piece. Inverted repetitive patterning has also been incorporated within the composition. Mixing flexible modeling paste to a second layer of the acrylic paint builds up heavy textures and dimensional form.
Even when there is no colour relation; cross-over of colour has been allowed to occur in order to force the composition to read as a cohesive arrangement, even though there are contrasts of colours.
With abstraction and deconstruction as the driving force, there is more licence to mix and match compositional ideas that may otherwise have been more constrained in execution, in a more representational format.
$1,575.00
Acrylic, collage and scratchboard on canvas.
24x24"
Portrait Collage is a sculptural scratchboard work that combines the mixed media of scratchboard, ink, and collage elements to create a 3-dimensional art piece that is contemporary and vibrant. Collage applications and mixed media, encourages an experience in contemporary experimentation.
$400.00
Clayboard and india ink.
6.50x3"
BEJEWELLED TRINKET BOX draws out the dimensionality and realism in this work through the use of traditional scratchboard techniques to scrape away and manipulate top silver and blue India ink layers that have been applied to a clayboard surface. Additional blue inks, re-scraped, render the bejewelling gems complete.