I found out about this artist through a magazine called Circa. It’s very interesting work. I would love to see the luminograms. Here is a bit of the article written by Slavka Sverakova; “She chose this mode of work during her Master of Fine Art Degree studies at the University of Ulster and during the subsequent years developed its subtle qualities. She is and has been a perfectionist. Dedicated to a mix of ideas that range from heroic modernism back to Renaissance and earlier paintings, her images grow out of spontaneity of hand and arm movement, paradoxically disciplined by a compositional order carefully chosen a priori. Tapes are placed where the light should not make a mark. It is in distance from the surface and possibly the speed and direction of the movement that the work is allowed to be spontaneous.
I asked her how she works: in a dark room?
All the works in the GTG show are created entirely in the darkroom. I worked under normal B/W safelight conditions for this body of work but have previously worked in the darkroom without any light other than the light source I am using to make my mark with. However, either way I cannot see the mark I have made until I have passed the photographic paper through the developer – I print my own work. I have a small darkroom and manage to print large sheets of photographic paper, which I buy in rolls up to 114.5cm/45inch wide.
I like the darkroom environment, its quietude, it really is my studio…”