Brigid Ibell paints. Painting, as translated from its Teutonic roots literally means "furnished with signs". She makes her marks mostly on large formats or on small square canvases, usually presented in installations of 25 to 40 panels.
Observing the artist at work and then glancing at the wall where she has attached the canvas or
paper, or even the floor, one sees a myriad of shades, blots mixed with marble dust or pigment.
One finds traces of colour everywhere, on her face, in her hair, under her nails, on her clothes. Struggle is the focus. One sees the lust, the pleasure, the anguish when she doesn't immediately succeed with a painting, when the thick layered material has to be scraped down or washed out.
Nevertheless the work is one entity - every stroke, every space, every move made fits - and it is unthinkable to imagine the work otherwise. Parallel to colour, the most important element in the work of Brigid Ibell is music. A line runs through the often monochrome surface. Sometimes it moves gently almost unrecognisably. Then it appears as a gesture, a cipher magnetising us into the depths of ultramarine for example, or inviting us to simply reflect. At other times the line becomes a track, tracing its way boldly and dynamically.
Which music creates ,,colour sounds'?
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