The Art of "Coiling"

The Art of "Coiling"

The Art of "Coiling"

On April 19, 2010 my world came to a screeching hault. I'm an artist, I paint, and sometimes discuss new techniques with my son. I was on the phone at 11pm.....suddenly I knew something was terribly wrong. Do you know the large metal plates that you drive over when they are doing street repairs? Suddenly I saw those slamming into each other, being slapped one upon the other like a deck of cards. The noise was deafening, metal, thunderous. I felt like I had been shot in the head. I quickly told my husband to call an ambulance that I was having a stroke. As it turned out I was struck with a subarachnoid hemmorage, and my brain was bleeding into my skull. The amazing doctors at UCLA worked on me for 6 hours. They went up through an artery in my groin and preformed what I found out later is called a "Coiling" technique. They fed platinum wire into my aneurysm forming a sort of wire ball that the blood could adhere to and clot, and stop the bleeding. I pictured it as a tiny ball of yarn in my brain. After spending 30 days in intensive care, being checked daily for nerological problems, I walked out a very lucky but tired girl. Eighty percent of people that suffer this aren't as lucky.

This leads me to my main topic,painting using what I have call the coiling technique. As an artist people have tagged me "the organic artist" for the look and feel of my artwork. I'm really interested in layering and showing time and layering in my art. I am inspired by hiking the horse trails and creek beds behind my home in Malibu, Ca. I am fascinated by the strata on the side of a mountain, the rings of a cut tree, and the patterns those things make. Also to be able to see a visual representation of evolution is fascinating for me. Grasses die, lie on their side while new green sprouts up between the golden straw. A real visual layering of the evolution of our Earth. All of these movements or actions leave an image, a trail of sorts. A puzzle of clues that one might read from.

Once I felt like going back up the trail, this really struck me so clearly. I had to paint using the "coiling" technique the surgical radiologists had used in my brain. It was a layering of sorts, that stopped the bleeding, and eventually let me to walk through the hospital doors. I was so intriqued by this technique, and wanted to see it visually. I made it flowing and visually sensous, mysterious floating coils. It looks a bit like magic.....it was magic for me.

I have coined the expression "the art of coiling" as a new painting technique in my art. I hope you like it, it means the world to me, literally.

36 x 36 acrylic, ink, enamel, graphite, canvas....................Swept Away

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