Each stroke Orsler puts on to the canvas is an intense spontaneous physical act; Using manual techniques such as layering and scraping. She sees layering as re-writing and hiding her experiences. In comparison, to scraping back the paint, to reveal what was underneath. For Orsler, this is an acknowledgement of what she has gone through to create the works on canvas. In these paintings, her life emerges through a complex layering of paints.
Numbing Saviour. 60x80cm. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2021
An expression of tingling, numbness, racing through her body.Bather. 70x100cm. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2021
The bather is submerged in water, Absorbed in ones thoughts, were scene has an almost eerie stillness to it, as if time has been suspended & all movement temporarily frozen.Last Dance. 70x100cm. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2021
You’re too lazy to dance I’m not to lazy I ache, and I want to dance.Pinpoint. 70x100cm. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2021
Pinpoint, pinpoint it is bloody everywhere.This will help… .70x100cm. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2021
My clouded mind, what is supposed to help doesn’t.Insomniac Blues. 70x100cm. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2020 Champs. 60x80cm. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2020 Introspection. 70x100cm. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2020 Lockdown Walk. 70x100cm.Mixed Media on Canvas. 2020 Night Souls. 70x100cm. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2020 Endless Cycle 60x80cm. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2020