Cut-Up Canvas II.6 Bernadette Jiyong Frank Dervillez is driven by rhythm

Dervillez is driven by rhythm

That digital montage became the model for the first painting

and a formal composition generate a feeling of austerity and sophistication

The process of creating these pictures is slow and deliberate

She paints each side of the paper in different colours and textures in order to give herself options

Cut-Up Canvas II.6 Bernadette Jiyong Frank Dervillez is driven by rhythmPedersen works with acrylic paint. When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often reducing the composition to minimal, hard edged shapes on solid colored fields. The harmonies and tensions in the work arise from different relationships: those between the colors, the patterns, and the geometric and organic shapes.