Occasionally this resolution happens rather quickly, but more often it takes layers and layers. My basic question is always “does it please me?” Some combination of color, shapes, lines that I am drawn to-undergirded by knowledge of design principles and color harmony-creates the feeling I seek. Pattern, texture, veiled shapes, and colors appear and disappear. Then the process of covering and uncovering, addition and subtraction, over and over again as I seek a resolution of the problems I have created. Random lines in charcoal or drippy paint, automatic writing, textured mediums, stenciled patterns, and splashes of color. It begins with despoilment-creating a mess on a pristine surface of canvas, paper, or wood. My intention is to create images that draw the viewer into a mysterious but somehow familiar world through the universal language of proportion, balance, and harmony.
Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”- excerpt from Mary Oliver’s poem “Franz Marc’s Blue Horses” I hope you are entranced by what you see. The mysterious transmutations often surprised me. I used different ways of starting paintings, tried new media including collage elements and pastels rubbed into texture, played with hard edged designs, mixed oil paint with acrylic, layered on lots of texture and sanded back to underlying shapes and colors-whatever the painting seemed to need. I was unsure of my direction but tried to remain open to the process and allow the paintings to reveal themselves through experimentation and exploration. Sometimes there is magic in the studio if I just let the genie catch me working.Ĭreated during a period of personal sadness, social division, and a war, I sought solace in creation, hoping to ignite bits of light in the darkness. Exhibit on display through April 28th About the Exhibit:
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