Sharon Evans

Graduate Certificate of Visual Art

Throughout this work I have employed the technique of chiaroscuro – the treatment of light and shade – to explore the concepts of connection and human contact. Through curiosity, I seek to capture moments in time that produce an intimate encounter between strangers – leaving the artist in darkness and the stranger in the light. The two never meet. There is only a sense of the other’s presence. I first ink up a plate to complete blackness, then scrape or wipe back the ink to create sections of light. This method, to me, replicates a sensation of scraping back the unknown or darkness to reveal light.