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COLOR COMES BACK

12/27/2017

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One year ago my color palette shifted. It went from bright color to subdued blues, grays and pinks with contrasting black and white.  This past fall I noticed a brighter blue was showing up, along with some pinks and yellows. One day a couple of weeks ago,  guava pink and mango yellow appeared, and pacific blue became more prominent. 

In 2017, the intensity of the political climate, the natural disasters, the mass shootings - the whole shadow-side of the world slapping was me in the face every day. A subdued palette was calming to me. When I first started painting, I was going through a challenging spiritual awakening. Back then, the shadow-side of my inside world was slapping me in the face and my paintings were all black, white, gray and blue. One day I reached for the three primary colors, then I spent three years taking color as far as I was brave enough to take it. Last December the color just disappeared. Now, it's back. In fact, I go to sleep and wake up thinking about color lately. 

I'm just starting to know better who I am as an artist - the key phrase is "just starting". One thing I'm certain of is that I like color. I like figuring out how color works, how colors speak to each other and to the people who are looking at them. I'm starting to understand how color speaks in its own language, one that doesn't need imagery. This is why I am starting to explore painting non-representional abstracts to let the color tell the story. My word for 
2018 might be COLOR. 

​"Color is a power which directly influences the soul." - Wassily Kandinsky
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    Making art and being inspired by color, story and my dogs- Dash and Juli Bean in Portland, Oregon.

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