Dani Schafer (in depth)

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Dani Schafer is an artist who I discovered through Instagram, and she creates expressive, process-based paintings. Her work is gestural and abstract, with negative space around the edges of each piece which allow the eye to travel across the composition. Her brush strokes are fluid and free, creating the sensation of expansive and deep spaces through layers of colour.

She works with with her canvas on the floor and manipulates the paint whilst it settles into place upon the surface. She uses sweeping brushstrokes as well as pouring and spreading the paint in a way that captures arcs of her bodies movements. Schafer is interested in how we see shapes, colour and light, how it reaches our eyes and how the brain interprets it. She pulls colours and forms from the environment. I am mostly interested in Dani Schafer because of the processes she uses when creating her work, mostly the way in which she manipulates the paint whilst it is still wet, and not just by adding more layers once the one before has dried settled. Her work also has a similar 'feel' to it that my own does because of the way the paints flow across the canvas with areas of paint that have dripped downwards.