A terrific, well illustrated interview with a wonderful young artist, Mary Tonkin.
I particularly liked the emphasis on the sensual and also the following description about composition:
"Through undergraduate at Uni I painted a lot of portraits and still life images. I was intent on making the image look like the thing I was painting, now I am concerned with making it feel like a relationship between the thing I am seeing and my internal state. I think I have much more control of what I’m doing now, I can at least make better guesses about how controlling the tonal values, narrowing the colour range, shifting scale of some parts or combining multiple points of view might effect how the image reads. Very simply, it is possible to make poems naively, but they’re far more likely to have the desired impact if one has a greater grasp of the language. I’m still learning."
http://stevegray.com.au/blog/mary-tonkin-artist/