The earth is a beautiful place. Spectacular colors and natural rhythms abound. I marvel at the color that surrounds me and at times changes before my eyes, engulfing the entire landscape and me. By day our sky is a kaleidoscope of colors and shapes. When the sun nears the western horizon, color bursts forth in the sky, a hush comes over the land, commands our attention, and beckons us to look up! As the day sky recedes, the window to the universe opens, revealing millions of stars suspended in space. Behold, the firmament in all its glory!
Elsewhere colors are constantly shifting, sometimes in gentle sway, sometimes in catastrophic violence of nature’s power. Wheat sways in the breeze and changes from green to golden under cobalt blue skies. Autumn transforms the greens of summer into reds and golds amid swirling and shifting winds. The frigid chill of winter winds accentuate the colors of winter. Spring brings brilliantly colored blossoms and sometimes turbulent skies. Oceans are ever shifting blues and greens and are constantly in motion. The animal kingdom is full of shimmer and brilliance.
My abstracts are about experience. Each painting reflects my experience, most often of the convergence of color, rhythms, and light. I celebrate the colors of the earth and its natural rhythms. Occasionally I paint a person’s emotional reality, sometimes my own emotional reality, and sometimes the reality of simple fantasy play. Always my perceptual experience interfaces with the paint as I am applying it onto the canvas. Upon completion of a painting, it is put forth for viewers to experience. The art acts as provocateur of individual ideas, thoughts, feelings, and imagination. It triggers interpretations through the filters of one’s own unique experience.
All of us are aware that art in all its forms serves as universal language for humanity. Additional to connecting us, paintings can highlight the uniqueness of every person. My abstracts stir emotions and often engender conversation that spotlight individual differences in imagination, thought, and analysis. I respect every individual’s unique identity and encourage them to experience my abstracts, to think for themselves, feel what they feel, and set their imagination free! Therefore, it is rare for me to give a narrative for one of my abstracts or to assign a name (in the traditional sense). To do so would guide the viewer toward some prescribed process or conclusion. By use of “Abstract U-__###____”, each painting is identified, while honoring every person’s raw, unscripted response, as well as interpretation and/or analysis.
Of course the true splendor and magnificence is all around us. It has already been created and is there for us to “drink in” with all our senses. Paint on canvas can reflect these realities; can stir the senses; and can awaken the soul to realities only knowable to the spirit within. However, paint on canvas can never create that which it reflects.
Kay Griffith
Elsewhere colors are constantly shifting, sometimes in gentle sway, sometimes in catastrophic violence of nature’s power. Wheat sways in the breeze and changes from green to golden under cobalt blue skies. Autumn transforms the greens of summer into reds and golds amid swirling and shifting winds. The frigid chill of winter winds accentuate the colors of winter. Spring brings brilliantly colored blossoms and sometimes turbulent skies. Oceans are ever shifting blues and greens and are constantly in motion. The animal kingdom is full of shimmer and brilliance.
My abstracts are about experience. Each painting reflects my experience, most often of the convergence of color, rhythms, and light. I celebrate the colors of the earth and its natural rhythms. Occasionally I paint a person’s emotional reality, sometimes my own emotional reality, and sometimes the reality of simple fantasy play. Always my perceptual experience interfaces with the paint as I am applying it onto the canvas. Upon completion of a painting, it is put forth for viewers to experience. The art acts as provocateur of individual ideas, thoughts, feelings, and imagination. It triggers interpretations through the filters of one’s own unique experience.
All of us are aware that art in all its forms serves as universal language for humanity. Additional to connecting us, paintings can highlight the uniqueness of every person. My abstracts stir emotions and often engender conversation that spotlight individual differences in imagination, thought, and analysis. I respect every individual’s unique identity and encourage them to experience my abstracts, to think for themselves, feel what they feel, and set their imagination free! Therefore, it is rare for me to give a narrative for one of my abstracts or to assign a name (in the traditional sense). To do so would guide the viewer toward some prescribed process or conclusion. By use of “Abstract U-__###____”, each painting is identified, while honoring every person’s raw, unscripted response, as well as interpretation and/or analysis.
Of course the true splendor and magnificence is all around us. It has already been created and is there for us to “drink in” with all our senses. Paint on canvas can reflect these realities; can stir the senses; and can awaken the soul to realities only knowable to the spirit within. However, paint on canvas can never create that which it reflects.
Kay Griffith