picnic / you may have more
This painting marks the early part of my evolution through this COVID-19 era. I was angry, I was crying, I went into my studio and found a painting that I hated and decided to obliterate it – the past, all that had gone before – but in the obliteration I discovered colors, shapes that interested me and so painted around these, proceeding to develop the painting from those saved passages. As I progressed, the painting seemed to me to represent an outlay of delicious fruit spread over, perhaps, a sandy beach – a picnic. The title You May Have More came to my mind as I finished and the piece felt to me a visual assertion of intention. Past the seeming diminution of my life, this painting is a generous offering to myself of everything luscious and good, an intention and hope for the future.
Painting
20 x 40 x 1.5
$1,600.00
1.5
Artist Statement:
The work I am submitting to this exhibit represents my evolution, thus far, through the COVID-19 era, a kind of "re-fresh" in stages. Therefore, the works are quite different from each other, developing as I experienced my emotional transitions. My art is primarily generated through a visual and tactile discussion with the internal and external forces in myself / my environment, and this discussion becomes the process and the expression itself. Early lockdown and the sense of danger surrounding me inspired my re-creation of an old and abandoned painting; traveling through the pandemic then led me to create avenues, map-like works, a way through; and, most recently, I’ve moved to a muted expression using pale colors feeling like memory, vision, freedom and light. These three pieces hint at representation of the visible world, but I always am attempting to create new relationship of color and form, to move with my energy and allow it to develop beyond conscious reasoning.
