Thundi 2010

Sally Gabori made this painting, called Thundi, using loose, colourful marks. The paint has been pushed around the surface—maybe with big brushes, or maybe even with a rag—in these big swipes of red, pink, yellow and white. You can imagine Gabori layering the colours, shifting things around, deciding, maybe, that the yellow needed to be brighter. The whole thing feels very immediate, like a quick response or a sketch almost. There’s a vulnerability about the speed of it, and the raw feeling it conveys. It makes me think of Joan Mitchell's paintings. There is a similar sense of place and freedom in the marks. All these painters, they teach us how to see through feeling.