ceci lombardi: Alaska Journey

This blog has been created to showcase my work as a painter. But as I embarked on this new journey, on board of a Cruise Ship, I feel I must also document it as part of my practice as a painter.

I came on board on the 19th of December 2010. I haven't been painting and I won't be painting for the next year while on board this ship. Nevertheless, I will keep on sketching and photographing my experience as later on will reflect on my work.

We are in Alaska now, and I feel this place it is already in my heart and will be in my paintings.

practice 2005 - the begining of the process | student statement

Throughout my last year as a student I focused on a series of paintings and drawings which studied the creative process of the work itself. My work varies from elaborate ink paintings to my latest drawings featuring the use of different teas and colour pencils. These "staindrawings" envolve a process of staining the paper with a tea bag in order to create intricate and unique marks. Later the process envolves drawing, writting and different techniques that work together in order to enhance the stains making them become no longer a simple tea stain but a rock, a cloud, a face, whatever the viewer can see... The work deals with aspects of how a drawing/ mark are created, and how we perceive and see things within the boundaries of drawing. They jump betweem being simple doodling, intriguing maps, diaries of thougths or maybe an attempt to create a new visual language.