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London – Hilary Pecis relies on her third eye to get inspiration, but instead of seeing auras, chakras or future scenarios, it is interesting to discover cracks in walls, decent rows of slots on ventilation grills and stacks of used books on a side walk table.
If the lines, angles and patterns are interesting, it cannot resist. Everything – weeds, traffic lights, peeling color – can inspire your bright, intense figurative paintings.
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“Everywhere there is so much food everywhere, good material everywhere. Even if I see the carpet over my computer beyond my computer, I love the way the fibers fall next to each other,” says Pecis from her house in Los Angeles during a zoom interview.
“Or maybe I’m just lightly amused,” adds Pecis, who once painted a sign that she saw in a bathroom because it looked right. “Composition and color are important, and I really like it when things come together. That makes a picture for me.”
Pecis’ latest paintings that come from her long -distance runs (she is six days a week, often trained for marathons) and travels in and around Los Angeles, can be seen in Timothy Taylor in a single exhibition called “Wandering” that runs until July 19.
During her hikes, she photographs pictures on her cell phone and brings the patterns and shapes with lively acrylic paint to life, which covers “every square” of her linen screens.
Peci’s curtains capture “Hotelpool”, which were so easily disturbed by an imaginary breeze. Impressing in the pillows on lounge chairs and the wrinkles and wrinkles of still dampening towels on the orange sunbone.
In “Book providers”, she adds a close-up view of the stack of used books, magazines and catalogs that most of them wrote in Greek. They are stacked on a metal table, in plastic boxes or cardboard boxes on a metal table.
For Pecis, the book cover are as inspiring as their uneven edges. She lovingly paints a chain connection fence behind the stand, the tiles on the sidewalk and the triangular crack on the wall under the table.
Sometimes she gives the patterns like in “Snowy Morning”. There is no central focus in this painting, just an excursion with footprints.
“There is nothing that we look at the snow, but I love the zigzag of the snow and the light and the subtlety of the pastel colors in the sky. There was no bird in the middle or a focus, but I just felt motivated from the composition,” she says.
Although Pecis begins to grab scenes and compositions on her phone, she will soon reject these pictures and let her belly take over.
“I make a very fast, shitty painting and then I work on and tighten. That is why the paintings have a blurring, a Wonkiness.
“It’s more like” Oh Lord, I made a few messages and I will just keep painting over them. “I constantly edit until it is as tight as it can be.
She has a healthy approach to her everyday life and treats studio work like a 9-to-5 job so that she can spend as much time as possible with her young son. It also takes time -ideally one year -to create paintings for her solo shows.
In the morning she runs – sometimes alone and sometimes with friends or other artists – and believes that there are so many parallels between sports and painting.
“There is the cadence of the movements and the [knowledge] that they go forward and build. You don’t always make a masterpiece every day in the studio or with every run. But with consistency, they do a lot of work or better work or build them towards a better or faster marathon, ”she says.
Your approach works. Her pictures live in places such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Aïshti Foundation in Beirut.
Pecis, graduate of the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, is also a co -founder of the Binder of Women based in La, an independent platform for contemporary artists, to share and promote their work and to expand their reach.
It is about to work on her next solo show, which will take place in Los Angeles in May. Although it does not offer much details, the focus is more on interiors than on outer data. “I don’t like that every show has the same painting style,” she says.
When she was at the opening of “Wandering” in London, she tried all big parks at her morning run – St. James, Green, Hyde, Regents and Hampstead Heath.
She was amazed at the brightness of the flowers, visited the bathing pond in Hampstead Heath and says that the pictures will inspire future work.
If she is not at home, pounds in the studio or on the sidewalk, she collects art. She particularly loves sculptures, although she is hopeless in doing it.
“If I have the opportunity to buy things, I usually buy a small tabletop sculpture. We all fetishize certain things and I love things that have weight and that I can hold. It is probably one of the things I love most because I don’t understand it so much.
“I work two -dimensional and have never successfully made sculptures, so there is still some magic that I don’t quite understand, an alchemy that I have not completely discovered,” says the artist, who is more than happy to hug her own cracks and imperfections.
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