PAINT

WORKS ON CANVAS

Traxler’s art is manifested in a number of ways. Her conventional studio practice of making works on canvas sits within the English tradition of lyrical abstract painting that has its roots in the modernism that was established in St. Ives in the 1940’s.
(Jonathan Parsons 2011)


'The interpretation of memory is mine alone – irretrievable moments captured in the gesture of paint, an unravelling of a personal biography.

A reflex action, an acknowledgment to place - almost as if subliminal. Unaware of where the mark making will take me, each response unique. As if in dream state the piece unfolds and only after the energy of mark making has taken place a realization occurs of memory, emotion and place. It is always this unknown that I am striving for, a spontaneity to proceed free from the entrapment of expectation.'
(Lisa Traxler 2012)