Considered a “distillation of lived experience,” Canadian-born L.G. Talbot’s larger-than-life-size canvases explore a bold color palette and thickly textured compositions of pure abstraction. Originally trained as a ceramicist, these recent paintings from 2021 and 2022 represent a shift in practice due in part to the pandemic. Now, working exclusively with palette knives, she establishes color fields more quickly and builds up layers of paint in more muted, earth tones. Consequently, physical engagement with materials and an elegant economy in composition have become signature aspects of Talbot’s oil paintings.

L.G. Talbot holds a master’s degree from Lesley College, Boston, MA, and a B.F.A. at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, T.N. She attended the Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC, studying under Robert Turner, and the Appalachian Center for Craft at Tennessee Tech University, Smithville, TN.