Ildiko Kovacs

For Ildiko Kovacs, painting begins with a feeling. A particular colour will beckon to her and she will follow it towards a conclusion, which may take weeks to find. Oil paint is applied directly to a ground of raw plywood with foam rollers, sinuous lines snaking their way around the field in complex interweaving strokes. Each day Kovacs begins again, wiping the surface down with turpentine to leave