Sandra Davison Plein Air PaintingsArtist's Information |
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Artist's StatementI respond to the energy of nature, light and change primarily through pastels outdoors. The work is most often done on site, en plein air, and whenever possible is done at a single location over the course of repeated opportunities.This often translates to months at a single location and since 2005 has meant the locations are primarily swamps. My passion is for the very dynamic life force that appears most strongly to me through wetlands and my interpretation is with color, stroke and spark. Life forms are great metaphors of life; giving, taking, dying, changing, growth wild or slow. Expressive directions in growth create amusing shapes and sculptural manifestation. There are personalities and great metaphors for our human condition that nature holds out when I'm surrounded by the daily business of eat, live, fly, die. The trees are very figural and as they loosen their bark become beautiful limbs leaning against another for support or rising above the surface and allowing their sculpture to remain long after the life force has left. The greater whole that humans are a part of unfolds in an ordinary way. The pieces painted on site are enlivened by the unpainted interactions with curious green herons, complaining other mammals and the persistent attempts by other creatures to use me as furniture, food, and home. I am part of the life system and they the painting process. Painting en plein air, each color and selected mark is contained in the whole of life at that spot in that moment. New subjects are a search for life force and flow, the spirit and energy of a subject. A new series of cityscapes and urban scenes done as tiny oil paintings express this search for life force and spirit. As new subjects are included in the work, a search for life force and flow, the spirit and energy remains the subject. I'm dedicated to pursuing my "Jewels In the Landscape" series, collecting additional painting environs and continue to convey the chaotic, reassuring, exceptional quality of life on this planet by sharing the insights through the work. -Sandra Davison |
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