Stars and forests

It was only during her stay in the United States, beginning in 1941, that she finally dedicated herself to her pictorial research. The studio she had in Roxbury, during her life with David Hare, allowed her to paint her first canvases. Her paintings, inspired by the natural environment around her and memories of her travels in the American West, are composed mainly of geometric forms—crystals, prisms, squares, triangles. One can already note her fascination with trees, flowers, skies, and the cosmos. Her talent as a colorist is expressed through a palette of browns, ochres, and greens, often flourishing in a nocturnal, fluorescent, and transparent atmosphere. This American period can be linked to the decalcomanias of Oscar Dominguez, the graphic explorations of Gordon Onslow-Ford, and above all to the world of Matta—whom she met frequently—then entering his phase of research into the fourth dimension and “infinite spaces.”