Márcio: I’ve never seen enough of her work to be influenced at all and didn’t even know about her until someone sent me some photocopies several years ago.

There are aspects of her style which superficially resemble other artists such as Giger (obviously) and Bertrand, even Bob Venosa if he’d ever painted weird erotic stuff. But I think it’s less a case of anyone looking over the shoulder of others and more that this kind of improvised style generates certain organic forms as a part of its process regardless of the artist involved. You see similar forms in the automatic drawings of Austin Spare and the decalcomania paintings of Max Ernst, Oscar Dominguez and others. I’ve found these forms emerge in my own work quite naturally, and when they do you can choose either to leave them as vaguely organic abstractions (as I did with some of the paintings I was doing in the 1990s) or develop them into growths, figures, creatures or whatever.

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