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From the blog:
My art studio is a 300 square foot storage room underneath our raised house. I have an AC unit but no heat, so for a handful of days during the year it’s miserably cold. Those days are almost always in January. Those days have been all the recent ones.
So I set up a little table easel in the backroom of my gallery. I meant for it to be just for one day or so, but I have enjoyed leaving my house so much to paint, I’ve stayed at that little make-shift workspace for the last two weeks. The lighting isn’t good. It’s cramped, and yet the change of scenery feels exactly right.
From this space, these loose paintings on paper have emerged. They are so different from my paintings on canvas because they use the negative space of the paper as an element in the design.
These paintings are about trusting my training. Trusting that I know enough about proportions and shapes and lines to use and bend and break the “rules.” That after twenty years of painting, I can use what I’ve learned as the basis not for realism but as a springboard for something intuitive, abstract, and, for me this month especially, therapeutic.