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About the Artist
Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern Virginia, I’m a landscape painter working in Oil, Acrylic, Pastels, and Silk Paintings; media that blur “Fine Art” and “Fine Craft”. With my passion for Oil Bars (oil paints in a solid stick form) and Oil Pastels as my mediums of choice, as well as recent explorations in traditional French Silk painting techniques, I am constantly exploring the fine line between drawing and painting. I love to use alternating thick and thin layered vibrating lines of contrasting colors and smooth color washes to express the contour and vibrant energy of the earth around us.
As a landscape painter working in Oil and Oil Pastels, I was frustrated that people admiring my art felt they could not pick it up and run their hands over the surfaces of the work I created. When I discovered Silk Painting it seemed to be the answer.
In all my art I try to recreate the emotions I feel when recalling a place… The sultry heat of a summer afternoon, the soft light of a misty morning across a valley or open field, the layering of shadows under a clump of trees where I used to love to hide, the vastness and changeablilty of the skies over Virginia. All of this I hope to share from my emotions and my memories. I strive to give you a genuine sense of place while at the same time of rest, of joy, of quiet beauty, of repose. Whether realistic, impressionist, or abstracted all my paintings start with nature. Some favorite subjects of my art are back roads, the sunset's light illuminating the hills the distance, the unusual shape of trees in shadow… all leading you to wonder what is around the corner or how the sky will change next.
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