Vet Ville c. 1950 - 1951

Kathryn Fulwider made "Vet Ville" with graphic mark-making and a pared-down colour palette. It's all about the process here; the eye is drawn to the artist's hand at work. I imagine the artist standing before her canvas, brush in hand, carefully planning the composition with bold, rhythmic shapes. The image is built from an accumulation of strokes, and the buildings shift and emerge through trial, error, and intuition. The textures in the blocky buildings are also crucial to how we experience the painting. Each gesture communicates feeling and meaning. It’s like she’s asking, “How can this painting speak without saying too much?” There's a real conversation going on here with other painters, an exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another's creativity. Painting is an embodied form of expression, embracing ambiguity and uncertainty and opening up multiple interpretations and meanings.