Ann-Marie JamesAnn Marie James's intricate paintings are built up through layer uponlayer of not only materials but also techniques. She often starts with adrawing of a human limb borrowed from art history, a leg purloined froma Bernini sculpture or a chubby arm of one of Peter Paul Rubens s putti. From it comes a silkscreen and then, at various points, James adds layersof thick medium, expressionistic splashes of acrylic and blobs of ink. Throughout she highlights