It seems a little odd to sit down and write something about why you like your own work. I know a lot of artists find it difficult and maybe even a little distasteful. For me, it’s about trying to find that part of a painting that reaches out to people, the part that is communicating. I am the first person to see the work so in order for the piece to be able to speak to others it must first speak to me. It must excite me on some level. That excitement is a very big part of my process and carries me through a lot of long days alone in my studio. So when I write or speak about my own work it’s so that I might understand better why the painting works.
That being said, this is a painting titled Quiet Rising which I’m showing because I like this piece on many different levels. On an emotional level I find this piece very calm, very quiet. There is a nice harmony in the way the colors and forms fit together, again in a way that I find very calming. For me, that appearance of placid calm seems to be an important aspect in my own evaluation of my work.
The path in the foreground has a curve that I find very intriguing. I can’t put my finger on the reason but it reminds me of an element from Henri Rousseau painting. Maybe it’s the movement of the path or the quality of the blue in the sky– I can’t be sure. A lot of the feelings I get from a piece are not quite fully realized thoughts. More like snippets or a tiny bit of a memory that comes to you without the whole episode, leaving you unsure if there even was a real memory there to begin with.
Whatever the case, this painting works for me and is worth sharing. It’s being shown at the West End Gallery in Corning, NY.
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I could not agree more with you on so many levels. Most artists find it really difficult to talk about their art. Possibly because most of us create art as an outlet for our inner thoughts and emotions. Maybe we feel that it is our art that ought to do the “communicating” for us? But I will say this, if you wanted to create piece and tranquility with “Quiet Rising”, you have certainly achieved it as far as I am concerned. I hope to see more of your work in the future.
Anna,
Thanks so much for the comment. I do think many turn to art because of a need to express something beyond words. I know I could write pages and pages about my work but would feel in the end that I’d said little, if anything.