Changing A Lightbulb

Flip The Switch

Lightbulb Moment

Mixed media on wood panel

8" x 8"

$600 for all 3

In this series i am playing with different scales of pattern, scribbles, loose lines, collage, stencils, and paint transfers contrasting with large scale solid areas. The energy in these works comes from the use of a variety of lines and hidden texts. My focus was on lost and found edges, including veiling, and keeping a lightness and freshness in the work. The loose brushwork and mark-making contrasts beautifully with defined pattern.

All 3 paintings are intuitive and was an opportunity to explore the creative process.

Ode To Lightbulbs is currently on view at the Essex Art Center in Lawrence MA at their annual salon show https://shop.essexartcenter.org/

2022 EAC Salon Show & Art Sale

Essex Art Center's Salon Show + Art Sale is the largest contemporary art sale in the Merrimack Valley, featuring over 250 works of art. The Show + Sale highlights the region's diverse artistic talent, including Essex Art Center's faculty, staff, students, and friends. Artists in the Show include highly acclaimed, professional artists and artists as young as 11 years old. This year's Sale runs from July 16, 2022, through September 10, 2022. Proceeds benefit Essex Art Center's mission and programming and the artists who made the work. Please shop generously and help us keep the arts visible and accessible in our community.

 

THESE 3 PAINTINGS SOLD AT THE SALON SHOW IN LAWRENCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Framed size - 23" x 29"

Mixed media and collage on paper

$1395

 

 

Antique bottles and other objects from the kitchen make wonderful subjects for still-life paintings because of their beautiful shapes and colors. I really enjoyed painting these objects with abstract collage and negative shape painting. The white horizontal lines are used to balance the strong verticals created by the objects.
Among the first to start abstracting still life scenes were Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. As artists experimented with new forms of abstraction, still life painting became a favored genre that let them play with various arrangements of textures, shapes, and colors.

 

 

Acrylic and mixed  media on paper

26" x 32" Framed size

$1695

When I was working on this painting, my husband was watching this show on Netflix about Marco Polo and kept talking to me every morning about it, so somehow the excitement of his adventures stuck in my mind. Hence the exotic title of the painting, inspired by the Netflix show. I Enjoyed using shapes, colors, forms, and gestural marks to achieve its effect.

“I enjoy playing with and rearranging colors, lines, and shapes to create images that I want to look at. I want my work to be surprising, playful, and provocative. Some of my paintings are doors, others windows. They are all portals. I continue to use these symbols because they are a joyous and mysterious language that is somehow both deeply personal and universal.” —Adria Arch

 

 

 

 

Mixed media on paper

12"x12"

$250

This painting reminds me of Fall/ Autumn colors. Autumn is a wonderful time in New England when the green color on leaves of trees and shrubs change to various shades of yellow, orange, red and brown. This mixed media still life painting is an ode to the season.

 

Fruit Bowl

12" x 12"
Acrylic and mixed media on gallery-wrapped canvas
SOLD

This painting is inspired by the one thing that is present in almost every home - a fruit bowl. A dish, vessel, tureen, pot, container to hold produce. Because it is such a universal idea it holds a lot of fascination for me as a painter. I had a lot of fun coming up with the colors and textures for this painting.
Drawing some of the fruits in was a last minute decision because just leaving it as an abstract painting might not appeal to everyone.

Abstraction II

Abstraction I

18" x 24" each
22" x 28" framed size each
$700 each

Recently i took a class to study the abstract work of Richard Diebenkorn, mainly his Ocean Park series. He lived in Berkeley, California, from 1955 to 1966.
From Wikipedia -
"The Henri Matisse paintings French Window at Collioure, and View of Notre-Dame^[8] both from 1914 exerted tremendous influence on Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park paintings. According to art historian Jane Livingston, Diebenkorn saw both Matisse paintings in an exhibition in Los Angeles in 1966 and they had an enormous impact on him and his work.^[9] Livingston says about the January 1966 Matisse exhibition that Diebenkorn saw in Los Angeles:

It is difficult not to ascribe enormous weight to this experience for the direction his work took from that time on. Two pictures he saw there reverberate in almost every Ocean Park canvas. View of Notre Dame and French Window at Collioure, both painted in 1914, were on view for the first time in the US.^[9]"

These paintings are based on his grid method. His grid was inspired by the Fibonacci sequence.The colors i used remind the viewer of the iconic images of beautiful stain glass windows, colorful tapestries or mosaics.

Pv Pigeons of India

Acrylic on Canvas
9" x 12"
$175
30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge

My Theme for this challenge is going to be as the name suggests "Postcards from India" - I am going to combine my love for Indian art and my new love for painting contemperory abstracts into small paintings/postcards with Indian motifs. I am working from the many photos i took during my trips and creative abstract backgrounds.
I did the same series last year in 2015, it will be interesting to compare.

Symphony of the Sea

Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
14" x 11"
$375

Enjoyed painting the rocks and the water in an expressionistic way. Sold at the Weston Library show in July 2015.

washed by water

acrylic on canvas
16" x 20"
$500

This is another  painting inspired by long walks on the beach with the feel of the salt water sprays on your face on a beautiful cool, sunny day.Water splashing on the rocks in a beautiful seascape composition.

Sunset Impression

acrylic on canvas
12" x 12"
$400

Everyone at one time or another has marveled at the warm pink and orange colors of a sunset. Although colorful sunsets and sunrises can be seen anywhere, they are particularly captivating during a beach vacation.
The colors of this sunset are imaginary but the place is real, (painted from a photo).
Enjoy this visual journey and remember a beautiful vacation sunset on a beach walk.

Winter Berries and Hyadrangeas

Acrylic on canvasboard
11" x 14"
$250 framed

Hydrangeas are beautiful as a painting in any season.

I painted this still life painting as a winter painting – mostly cool colors with a touch of warm red. The red berries give that extra punch of color and add a dynamic diagonal line to the composition.

 This painting has several soft textures. It is mostly a high key painting with beautiful color variations in the flower itself.