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Netty
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This
body of work depicts mystical, beautiful and calming places where people
have gone for centuries. Since the 1970's I have enjoyed working
directly from nature in the plein air genre of landscape painting. I
work with watercolor, acrylic and oil paint on these images. Often I
become intimate with the same site by painting it over and over, at
different times of the day and season. Such a process is extremely
challenging while facilitating a deeper and richer understanding of
nature's brilliance and changeability. This kind of artmaking is for me,
a kind of meditation practice. While it is not my primary purpose as an
artist, it informs all of my work and precedes my work as a
site-specific, environmental artist, working in nature. Some of the
works seen here are depictions of the same pond, surrounded by
mountains, a place of peaceful repose near my home/studio. In the warm
months it is also a place that I swim with my therapy dog. |
