Piece description from the artist
Floral Fireworks is a mixed media flower painting that relies heavily on the properties of acrylic and paper fiber composite to create flow, texture, and pattern. The substrate for the flower painting is a novel paper-based material called “Artboard”, which combines the absorbent surface, texture and feel of paper with the chemical resistance, stiffness, and durability of an epoxy composite. It can take paint without priming, and fluid paint and ink absorb into the surface with only moderate spreading (which can be controlled by varying the amount of liquid). When a fluid color soaks into the surface it creates an intense, softly textured wash effect. Wash effects and cotrolled color bleeding, washing, and blending create the perfect backdrop for a soft contemporary flower painting like “Floral Fireworks”. Acrylic paint is a very versatile medium. A single acrylic color can be combined with a variety of acrylic painting media to change it’s properties from opaque to transparent, sculptural to highly fluid, smooth and glossy to a range of textured finishes. “Floral Fireworks” is a flower painting that takes some of the best ideas from similar floral landscapes I had done in oils. The versatility of acrylic paint extends the ideas from the earlier oil paintings and adds a few new techniques and textures. The overall effect is much more contemporary, fluid, and dynamic.
Materials used:
Artboard (paper epoxy compostie), acrylic paint, shellac ink, india ink, acrylic ink, fiber paste
Dr. Regina Valluzzi has an extensive scientific background in nanotechnology and biophysics. She has been a scientist in the chemical industry, a green chemistry researcher, a research professor at the engineering school at Tufts, a start-up founder engaged in technology commercialization, and a start-up and commercialization consultant.
Even during periods of intense activity as a scientist, Dr. Valluzzi has always held a strong interest in the visual arts and in visual information. While she majored in Materials Science at MIT, she also obtained a second degree in music and a minor in visual studies. Visual arts have managed to permeate her technical work; during her Ph.D in Polymer Science and Engineering at UMass Amherst, she completed a thesis that required advanced electron microscopy, image analysis, and theoretical data modeling. These experiences provided the visual insight and information that now influences much of her artwork.
Dr. Valluzzi’s work has been included in private collections across the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Dubai and Malta, and in the corporate collection of "Seyfarth Shaw" Boston law offices around Boston. She has a selection of pieces on loan to the MIT Materials Science and Engineering Department as indoor public art. Her accomplishments include having published thirty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, having made several scientific patents, having been a subject matter expert for an encyclopedia chapter, and having been invited to speak at science talks across the US, Europe, and Japan.
Her newsletter is a good source of ongoing information: http://eepurl.com/daiLQ
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