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| These paintings are a continual series of abstraction, which start to look like landscapes and figurescapes, when in fact, they are all parts of a still life. By focusing in very closely on the shapes and rhythms of the still life, these abstractions started to emerge.
Music and the visual arts have much in common. Both offer a powerful means to express rhythm and emotion. When I listen to music while I am painting, it flows through me and freely lets me interpret it in a visible form that includes my own experience, emotions and feelings. As a former music student and teacher, music has played a major role my life. Now as an artist, it is an essential part of my creative process. When I am
painting, it lifts my spirits, releases my emotions and guides my hand.
This current body of work represents my search for validation of my sensuality and femininity. Throughout my life I have sublimated my own feelings while I have been nurturing others to discover theirs. Now I have
an opportunity to escape these binds and to allow my emotions and feelings to be expressed freely. These paintings represent this emergence.
The rhythmical contours of these paintings reflect my emotional reaction to music and its effect on my psyche. The music flows into me, releases me and is reflected in my work.
As the series of pepper paintings progress, each will have the underlying rhythms of shape, form, tonal value and contrast as expressed through music. |
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