Painting and Painting: April 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Improvising the Landscape

Small improvisations:

Improvisation: Pink

ink, acrylic, dry pigment

Detail:

Improvisation: Green

ink, acrylic, dry pigment and charcoal

Detail:

Swarm Landscape with Fence

ink, marker, acrylic

I have always had a rich dream life, and a need to make these things I see in my head visible. I use art to squeeze them out like a saturated sponge of its water - to share with others, yes - but mainly to get them out so I can examine them. As a sensitive person living in the 21st century I am constantly soaking up the visual information that bombards us all daily. I believe that all these images are then filtered through my subconscious and shown back to me in dreams. I use visual language to create a plane of reality where seemingly disparate images come together to create a world unique to my experience. I paint and draw from my intuition and seek to distill dreams and memories to their most succinct expression. I allow the physical material I am working with stay fresh and alive so that the image I hold in my head and the material I use to put it to canvas or paper combine to create something that is neither pure abstract expressionism nor surrealism, but rather something in between. I'm telling stories, but the act of painting allows the narrative to evolve as it is told. It is a relationship that fills my life with constant surprise, joy, and terror.

-Melanie P. Brown 2009

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