“Birds in Flight”-oil and acrylic Painting

About the artist- Casey-Mason was exposed to the language of painterly skills by studying the works of Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, and Morisot, which she appreciated and learned from. Her early impressionistic works from 1995 to 2010 portrayed landscapes, farms, nature, buildings, marine paintings, rural scenes, and still lifes. In 2002, she attended her first workshop in Monet's gardens, which inspired her dream to live in France. After attending her second workshop in the south of France, she sold her home in the U.S. and left her corporate job to move to the French countryside. The landscape that had inspired her became her life, and she created light-filled flower and vegetable gardens. Her gardens became the main focus of her many new paintings. During these years, she discovered the works of Gerhard Richter, Joan Mitchell, and Jackson Pollock, whose use of colors, expressive brushstrokes, intuition, and individuality stirred her imagination. Casey-Mason adopted their approach, which has dominated her art making for the past ten years, celebrating her freedom, love of color, and wonder on her canvases through abstractions that are never far from the rhythms of nature and life experiences. The hues sit well and resonate with intuitive marks. Casey-Mason now resides in the U.S. Her landscapes and abstracts have found homes in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Minnesota, California, Georgia, North Carolina, Australia, Mexico, France and England. Artist Statement- "Before starting a painting I spend a lot of time deciding upon color combinations and experimenting with different mediums. Whether I plan to paint to music or start each session unscripted, I begin by putting a paintbrush (knife, pen, marker etc.) to canvas, making marks haphazardly and reacting intuitively to the canvas. The moment by moment process of manipulating the paint (often times scraping off and reapplying) begins to reveal the inspiration for the piece...a place...a time...a feeling...or an experience that had a profound effect on me. It's at this time I step back and use my thoughts to fine tune the piece and make the changes necessary to complete the image. Whether it's in minutes, hours, days or even months, eventually I know when the canvas no longer wants more of me and it's done. Life doesn’t provide the chance to redo things or the chance to always determine outcomes. For me, creating art does and I relish in that.