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Jaya Mansberger Mansberger's work currently explores the lines and relationships between representation and abstraction. Her aim is to create paintings whose brush-strokes teeter between signalling some human activity or landscape and dissolving into arbitrary painterliness. This concern also informs her actual painting process. Mansberger usually starts off with a specific image in mind which then inevitably gets lost beneath layers of loose, intuitive brush-marks. In this way the original pictorial starting point becomes translated into a more personal and painterly abstract language. The sumptuous, refined work is also full of art historical references, she is currently drawn to sensuous eras of painting, particularly Baroque and Rococco artists from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Linked to this interest in Old Master paintings is a wish to express a contemporary version of the Sublime. Her paintings contain a certain sense of tension as they appear to be both spontaneous and highly considered. The modest size and round shape of the canvases is intended to convey a sense of delicacy and restraint and to give the paintings a jewel like, intimate quality. participated in: Plus 1