Alan Schacher

I’m working with colour extracted (drawn out) from charcoal and crepe paper and also with the residual paper pulp. This is a process action drawing executed quickly by mark-making, pressing, dripping, splashing and running the liquid onto watercolour paper.

In creating the work there is fixing, fastening, detaching, separation of the colour pigment from the medium in which it is bound. I work both on the horizontal and vertical planes to accomplish this. After extracting colour from the crepe paper it is left to hang in shards to dry.

The work on paper and its source are kept in close proximity, thus together yet apart.