Pathways

Artist’s Statement:

These paintings, influenced by the radiance of Impressionism, the energy of Cubism and the elegance of Minimalism, take another direction, another pathway, in the exploration of time. The clarity of geometry and the aesthetic potential of music and language are combined with the natural rhythms of land, sea, and sky. I have translated them into optical events where conflicts and their resolutions can occur.

Abstraction liberates colour and form from representational functions. The simplicity of rectangular shapes transformed into thematic sequences become positive or negative as colour, selected for its physical and expressive qualities, defines their position and direction. The rhythmic repetitive forms can suggest movement or meditation as they emerge from layers of colour.

The painting becomes a place where the viewer may be part of the adventure of form and colour. Optical events are only part of the exploration. Within the confines of stability and instability (colour), stillness and movement (form), are the pathways of my search for order and balance – something beyond the material world.

“…When you walk into a roomful of her paintings you are submerged in an experience of scintillating, vibrating colour that gives the sensation of movement but is locked in place. Despite bright colours and hard-edged compositions, this is a contemplative art, one in which colour relationships slowly pry apart space to give your eyes and mind some breathing room…”

Tila Kellman: In the Light of Numbers