In a world dominated by linguistic communication, Ebony Truscott feels more at home in the elusive realm of visual and tactile sensation. She prefaces our conversation by saying, “I feel like I can be more eloquent in my art than in spoken language, sometimes.”
However, it quickly becomes evident that Truscott’s enduring focus and passion for drawing and painting the world she sees and feels, via the distilled space of the studio, requires keen observation and a deep understanding of what art has the capacity to do.
The still life is a well-worn artistic genre, originating in Italy in the 1500s, and brought to prominence in Northern Europe in the seventeenth century. Artists from Georg Flegel to Pieter Claesz, from Louise Bourgeois to Andy Warhol, have all tried their hand at a genre
