Cabello’s series of athletes, painted in oils on linen, show luminous torsos woven into a grid of gestural drips. The paintings channel a specific, personal moment of profound realisation. “Each emotive piece explores the range of emotions I experienced when confronted by my first live boxing match. The cascading drips of blood and sweat that stained the boxer’s body, the solace and tenacity in the individuals gaze.”
“I represent this effect by first applying the white drips which take a month to dry.” The glowing surface and optical depth of Miriam’s oil paintings is obtained through applying numerous translucent and transparent layers of kinetic brushwork. She only uses the warm and cool variants of three colours per piece. This method invites contemplation as oil painting dries very slowly. “My technique requires I wait for each layer to completely dry before the next glaze is applied. The resulting fine network of dripped lines optically blends colours when viewed from a distance and depicts my subjects’ individual colour temperature.”
It is in this private place where the depth of each mans gaze is felt. The focus is on the human condition and like Michelangelo’s David; the resolve and success of the individual is not dictated by physicality alone.
The emotive paintings that form White Rope explore the spectrum of each boxers story from the initiated to the robust and contribute to the dialogue of the male image in art.
These works are painted in her unique, masterful oil painting technique ©Spectral Kinetic Realism. A new, inspired and challenging process that is grounded in 20 years of academic research and creative exploration.
