Available! Exclamation Mark! ; 24'x24"; oil on panel; painted entirely with credit card
BeautyMarks ! ? . An exhibition of simplified form.
Patches of pigment. Each unique, necessary and important. Individual yet communal. Texture, light, & movement impressions making their own exclamation! Asking questions? Layers of value pushed, scraped, and dabbed over brilliant high key hues. Shapes created with a plastic card loaded with beautiful tones of pigment stroked across panel surfaces, leaving their mark. Each defines pieces of the whole. Your eye completes the image. These canvases were created with a focus on the interaction of shape against shape and value against value, using the Light as foundation. Beauty, Marks.
Brilliant underpainting chroma creates iridescence. Oil pigments and untraditional tools modeling images that are simultaneously abstract and hyperrealism depending on the viewers position. The shape of the card and the direction of the stroke dictate the mark that is made to represent areas of subtle value shift. Making marks exclusively using the card forces only shape representation. Each is beautiful, making its own mark in the Creation.
What makes a mark a beauty? The eye of the beholder! “As a maker of marks, I have discovered that accepting a mark for what it is, beautiful or awkward, and leaving it to work with the other marks in the painting creates a unity in the diversity of texture across the panel surface. Because each is unique, the painting becomes more interesting. The marks become the beauty in the painting (verb & noun)."
The Beauty Marks Exhibition is headed for the Knoxville Arts & Culture Alliance, Emporium Gallery in June 2022!
Patches of pigment. Each unique, necessary and important. Individual yet communal. Texture, light, & movement impressions making their own exclamation! Asking questions? Layers of value pushed, scraped, and dabbed over brilliant high key hues. Shapes created with a plastic card loaded with beautiful tones of pigment stroked across panel surfaces, leaving their mark. Each defines pieces of the whole. Your eye completes the image. These canvases were created with a focus on the interaction of shape against shape and value against value, using the Light as foundation. Beauty, Marks.
Brilliant underpainting chroma creates iridescence. Oil pigments and untraditional tools modeling images that are simultaneously abstract and hyperrealism depending on the viewers position. The shape of the card and the direction of the stroke dictate the mark that is made to represent areas of subtle value shift. Making marks exclusively using the card forces only shape representation. Each is beautiful, making its own mark in the Creation.
What makes a mark a beauty? The eye of the beholder! “As a maker of marks, I have discovered that accepting a mark for what it is, beautiful or awkward, and leaving it to work with the other marks in the painting creates a unity in the diversity of texture across the panel surface. Because each is unique, the painting becomes more interesting. The marks become the beauty in the painting (verb & noun)."
The Beauty Marks Exhibition is headed for the Knoxville Arts & Culture Alliance, Emporium Gallery in June 2022!
Available! Making Her Mark; 30 x 30; oil on gesso cradle board; painted entirely with card
Available!; Beauty Mark; 18" x 24"; oil on gesso cradle board; painted entirely with card
Available!; On Your Mark, Get Set. ...; 24" x 18"; oil on gesso cradle board; painted entirely with card
Available!; Marksman ; 12" x 24"; oil on gesso cradle board; painted entirely with card
Available! Maker's Mark; 24"x18"; Oil on gesso board; painted with card
Available! Landmark Leadership-Homage to Ukraine; 18" x 24"; oil on panel;
painted entirely with a credit card
Available! Benchmark Resilience-Homage to Ukraine; 36" x 24"; Oil on Gesso Cradle Board; painted entirely with card
Available! Remarkable Fortitude-Homage to Ukraine; 36" x 24"; Oil on Gesso Cradle Board; painted entirely with card
Available! Gospel of Mark; 5" x 7" oil on panel; painted entirely with card
Available! X Marks the Spot; 6" x 8" oil on gesso board; painting entirely with card
Available! Flower Market Find; 9" x 12" Oil on Gesso Board; painted entirely with card
Available! Libation Hallmark; 20" x 16" Oil on gesso board; framed
Available! BookMarks #9; 60" x 20"; Acrylic on Canvas