Bromfield Gallery 2021 : Painting in the Woods
Work Statement
After months of attempting to make the oil paintings of my past and failing, I started asking myself, “Can I paint the landscape and respond to my present emotional energy at the same time?” I began drawing from moving water which runs through an abandoned feldspar quarry behind my home in Maine. I let go of oil paint, drew on paper with graphite and painted using water based media.
The union of drawing and painting in my new work has created a freedom for me to ask new questions and experiment with the duality of expressionism and landscape painting. I am working to record my visual language more specifically to who I am as an artist, woman and a mother.