Thomas Scheibitz (b.1968)

He always works with the same formats, varying only slightly depending on the composition, and reflecting human proportions and the golden mean. Firstly, Scheibitz prepares a sketch for the painting. This picks up on something he has previously discovered, a speck of reality, things and how they are perceived. For, as Schiebitz formulates it, one can only discover at the edges, in the ceaseless transformation of perceptions and images. Here his choice of theme is less significant than the many more formal correspondences and similarities that he translates, cuts out, isolates and layers. He transfers this sketch onto textile paper using pigment markers, working the fluid vinyl colo...