Frottage

I was interested in seeing Dougal Kirkland’s use of Frottage when we viewed his wall-hanging at the Wilson Museum and Gallery in Cheltenham last week.

It was the surrealist, Max Ernst who developed this technique of rubbing objects with a surface texture and transmitting it  another surface for some of his artworks.

It has given me an idea of how I might  obtain the surface of bricks in our old fireplace for my next painting ‘Twas The Night Before’.

You can see a photo of Kirkland’s use of Frottage on my latest Instagram and Facebook posts.