Anne Hieronymus

Hieronymus is a builder not a painter. She thinks with her hands and would be bored with a master plan. She is interested in discovering what she is going to make as she makes it, because she does not know the outcome in advance.
Hieronymus makes her drawings with colored pencils because they are immediate and basic and she always, as a child, used them for drawing. Her ground is gesso over Japanese paper, prized for both its dazzling white brilliance and a wrinkled texture.
The subject is often a collage of her own making, a debris field of torn and repurposed printed paper, stickers, decorations and broken up press-type. She sees the reworking from collage to drawing as an opportunity for transmutation, with each iteration losing and gaining in unexpected ways.