Summary: Audrey works in a variety of mediums including pencil, charcoal and oil paint. She works on canvas and BFK Reeves Paper, executing preliminary studies on newsprint and drawing paper. In her current series entitled Repose. Reframe. Audrey began with a single pose: a nude female with her arms raised overhead. Her early works in the series were classically executed as she learned more about the physiology of the body in this pose. As she became familiar with the image, she began to explore and experiment with more formal elements of the composition. Audrey produces countless preliminary charcoal drawings, each one evolving and becoming more abstracted from the previous one. From an extensive pile of drawings, Audrey selects images she find most intriguing and continues exploring them on canvas and/or BFK Reeves paper in charcoal and oil paint. In speaking of the Repose. Reframe. figures, Audrey describe their Repose a state of rest, sleep, or tranquility. Reframe to frame or express (words or a concept or plan) differently. Bio: Audrey Lawson is a contemporary modern painter living and working in her hometown of Toronto, Canada. Audrey completed her BFA from Concordia university in 2007. She continued her studies in New York at Parsons School of Design where she graduated on Dean’s list in 2012. In 2016, Audrey attended The Slade School of Art in London for a concentrated drawing course. Audrey was a finalist in the Toronto Urban Film Festival for the short animation she wrote and illustrated, Sewing the City Green. In 2013, Audrey co-created an experimental online art project, RuleByArt, making digital art available for artists to collaborate with across the globe. In the last 2 years, Audrey has been moving her focus towards showing her artwork publicly. Audrey’s most recent exhibition, Forever & A Day took place at the Peter McKendrick Gallery in August 2015.
