Exposed Painting, Cobalt Violet

A luminous field of cobalt violet oil paint is partially dissolved and wiped away, revealing the bare linen canvas beneath in a gesture that is at once destructive and meditative. Innes's signature process of applying and then removing pigment with turpentine creates a quiet tension between presence and absence, between what remains and what has been erased. The resulting surface carries a ghostly, atmospheric quality, where the residue of color bleeds into raw canvas in a meditation on painting's own fragile existence.