All work in the slideshow is approximately 21" X 29".
The medium is Golden Fluid Acrylics.
The substrate is Arches 140lb cold press watercolor paper.
The process of painting for me is highly intuitive. I have two distinct approaches. The first approach is primarily a wet in wet pouring encounter, one in which I must trust my ability to interact astutely with the innate quality of the media.
I begin by simply communing with the paper. I settle in and quiet my mind by gliding my hands over the expanse of white ground. I breathe in the possibilities. A color palette comes to me. I mix the colors, wet the paper, and pour.
I pour again and again, quickly making decisions, working in the flow of what is needed in the moment.
The second approach is primarily painting like a three year old; it's playful and freeing, so very freeing! I begin the same way, with a wet in wet pour but then I use my hands and brushes to move the paint. I scribble with charcoal and have a brush in each hand. I make marks until I'm played out. I contemplate my beautiful mess and work to bring the composition together with an awareness to preserve the original energy. Just like life, things get messy, they fall apart, and they come together. Hey, that sounds like a Pema Chodron quote, because it's true, art does imitate life.
What manifests is a curious mystery, at once unknown and also recognized. I recognize the experience but it’s in a visual language I could never have consciously imagined. Nor could I ever describe it in words. Each painting speaks for itself.
To me, what appears is representative of beautiful, flowing, atmospheric organic matter found in the natural world; the flora, the fauna. It is bright, lush, rhythmic, sensual, engaging. It is life itself; a place, a sight, a sound, a memory of something past; an inkling of something to come. It is a visual representation of a personal and perhaps collective experience regarding interpersonal connection and the natural world.
The medium is Golden Fluid Acrylics.
The substrate is Arches 140lb cold press watercolor paper.
The process of painting for me is highly intuitive. I have two distinct approaches. The first approach is primarily a wet in wet pouring encounter, one in which I must trust my ability to interact astutely with the innate quality of the media.
I begin by simply communing with the paper. I settle in and quiet my mind by gliding my hands over the expanse of white ground. I breathe in the possibilities. A color palette comes to me. I mix the colors, wet the paper, and pour.
I pour again and again, quickly making decisions, working in the flow of what is needed in the moment.
The second approach is primarily painting like a three year old; it's playful and freeing, so very freeing! I begin the same way, with a wet in wet pour but then I use my hands and brushes to move the paint. I scribble with charcoal and have a brush in each hand. I make marks until I'm played out. I contemplate my beautiful mess and work to bring the composition together with an awareness to preserve the original energy. Just like life, things get messy, they fall apart, and they come together. Hey, that sounds like a Pema Chodron quote, because it's true, art does imitate life.
What manifests is a curious mystery, at once unknown and also recognized. I recognize the experience but it’s in a visual language I could never have consciously imagined. Nor could I ever describe it in words. Each painting speaks for itself.
To me, what appears is representative of beautiful, flowing, atmospheric organic matter found in the natural world; the flora, the fauna. It is bright, lush, rhythmic, sensual, engaging. It is life itself; a place, a sight, a sound, a memory of something past; an inkling of something to come. It is a visual representation of a personal and perhaps collective experience regarding interpersonal connection and the natural world.
