Cadence graphite and ink on Rives paper The “Rotary” paintings series focus

The “Rotary” paintings series focus on a shallow

and also the potential for transcending that conditioning by grasping it in the physical and perhaps less-determined form of paintings on wood panel

The visual memory finds its way directly onto the paper and undergoes a transformation into a ‘flat’ translation of the memorized image

This piece from the  series Bulge is a rhythmic vertical threaded pattern across a mononchromatic painted surface

Cadence graphite and ink on Rives paper The “Rotary” paintings series focusUchiyama works with watercolor on Arches paper. She often develops as many as eight compositions at one time, moving on to the next while the paint dries on the last. To begin each work, she waits to see a hue on the blank surface. Each additional hue builds off of that original vision, building towards a linear horizontal pattern. Each layer possesses unique physical and material properties: some are opaque; others are translucent; some are