LIKE A SCULPTOR who sees form in a block of marble, artist Lucy Vader intuitively understands what a blank canvas wants to say. “I can look at a canvas and start to see shape on it,” she says. “It’s awesomely intimidating and exciting at the same time.”
Starting with a canvas prepped in a ‘ground’ of brilliant red – a technique used by the Old Masters – Lucy teases out evocative images of rural Australia with thick layers of paint. “It’s wild and abstract,” she says of her process. “I upset myself and I upset the canvas… I bash things out and then
