"Cerma Cerintha", Michelle Stuart, 2007.
Andes Clearwing, 2006
Beeswax, ink, pigments, vellum, china paper
Beeswax, ink, pigments, vellum, china paper
'Michelle Stuart's gouache inkblot butterflies and moths – in unusual color combinations of black, gray, white, mauve and beige – some drawings showing a fold, others not – clearly evidence a Freudianism that would have been unthinkable to Jean Gabriel Pretre, whose delicate naturalistic watercolor study of wasps, c.1810, are as objectively precise as hers are erotically suggestive.'
'In this current exhibition, Butterflies & Moths, she records her observations, layers of pigments, beeswax, silverleaf, and vellum, bringing to life the mysterious hidden structures of these delicate minute subjects and bridging the divide between the scientific and the artistic.'