Creating art is a joyful and challenging process. I enjoy the challenge of transforming a blank canvas by shape, color and texture into something that can bring delight to the viewer. It is very rewarding to see a painting connect with a person.
I paint in acrylics and my work is all about color and shapes within which I find subjects with a touch of whimsy that emerge through the painting process. I work with a limited palette of colors that is consistent throughout all of my paintings. This helps to unify my paintings into a cohesive body of work. Many of my paintings incorporate texture, which can be built up using molding paste, drizzled tar gel or collaged rice paper. Sometimes I pull out older pieces that I am not completely satisfied with and use their texture as a jumping off point to develop a new work. As I establish new colored shapes, turn the canvas, work a bit more, eventually one of the shapes will stand out and I will find the subject for my painting. I continue to develop shapes and colors to unify and complete the composition. It's a process that I find enjoyable, stirs my creativity and keeps me coming back to my easel.
ACRYLIC
12 X 12
$380