"Naoshima No. 14"
Acrylic on Clayboard Panel, Signed
2019
11" x 14"

About the Piece
As a painter, I create artifacts that connect me to the memory of my mother, who died when I was young, and who made beautiful needlework when she was living. My work begins by documenting what I see in nature with photographs, honoring the autographic mark that place makes on a person. The images are decayed through digital reduction, much like memory as it fades. They are meticulously transferred and painted using a very small brush. What resembles a photograph from ten feet away is a surface teeming with small, stitch-like marks when engaged at close range. The brushwork is reminiscent of needlework, both in its application and in the emotional connection it invokes for me as the daughter of a stitcher. My marks made with paint form a generational chain to my mother's made with thread; our works are the artifacts we leave behind as mortal memory fades.

About the Artist
Camille Warmington is a painter whose work reflects on artifacts and their connection to memory and mortality, place, and presence. She studied painting at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and earned a bachelor's degree in interior architecture from Kansas State University. Her paintings have appeared in national, regional, and local, juried exhibitions, have been featured in New American Paintings, and received a Hunting Prize nomination. A mother of three, Warmington was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Dallas, and lives and works in Houston, Texas.

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