Artist’s Statement
With my passion for oil bars (oil paints in
a solid stick form) and oil pastels as my mediums
of choice, as well as recent explorations in
acrylic paints, I am constantly exploring the
fine line between drawing and painting. I love
to use alternating thick and thin layered vibrating
lines of contrasting colors and smooth color
washes to express the contour and vibrant energy
of the earth around us. I work primarily on
paper and in medium to large sized works suitable
for framing for home and office.
Using oil bars (oil paints in a solid
stick form) and oil pastels as my medium of
choice, I am constantly exploring the fine line
between drawing and painting. I love to use
alternating thick and thin layered vibrating
lines of contrasting colors and smooth color
washes to express the contour and vibrant energy
of the earth around us. I work primarily on
paper and in medium to large sized works suitable
for framing for home and office.
Having grown up in the Blue Ridge Mountains
of Southwestern Virginia, my love of nature
and the contrasts of land and sky are illustrated
in a painterly combination of color and line.
My rich and intensely colorful impressionist
and abstracted landscapes are about expressing
a sense of belonging, of safety, of home. I
try to draw you in and give you a sense of the
majesty and the variety of the rich earth found
in the Virginia countryside. Along with my use
of brilliant colors, these techniques are combined
to give a peaceful yet challenging landscape
or abstract painting.
Whether realistic, impressionist, or
abstracted, my paintings are of remembered places
of my childhood. All my paintings start with
nature. Some of my favorite subjects are country
back roads, the sunset’s light illuminating
the hills the distance, the unusual shape of
trees in shadow… all leading you to wonder
what is around the corner or how the sky will
change next.
In my paintings I try to recreate the
emotions I feel when recalling a place… The
sultry heat of a summer afternoon, the soft
light of a misty morning across a valley or
open field, the layering of shadows under a
clump of trees where I used to love to hide,
the vastness and changeability of the skies
over the Virginia landscape. All of this I hope
to share from my memories. I strive to give
you a genuine sense of place while at the same
time of rest, of quiet beauty, of repose.
I have been most influence in my work
by Ann Aves Martin (who studied under Wolf Kahn).
Mr. Kahn’s teachings which grew out of
his own studies of Abstract Expressionism in
the 1950’s, the Impressionists with their
study of the natural contrast of light and shadow,
and by Rothko with his studies of human response
to color against color.
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