Cancale, France-oil Painting

Cancale is a commune in Brittany, France known for it’s oysters. Created on Arches archival paper the artwork is shipped unframed. Frames used in images are for visual purposes only. Images in-situ may not be to scale. Certificate of authenticity accompanies all paintings. About the artist- The works of Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and Morisot showed Casey-Mason a language of painterly skills that she was able to appreciate and learn from. Her early impressionistic works (1995-2010) depict landscapes, farms, nature, buildings, marine paintings, rural scenes and still lifes’. In 2002, she attended her first workshop in Monet's gardens which inspired a dream to live in France. After her second workshop in the south of France, she left her corporate job, sold her home in the U.S. and moved to the countryside of France. The landscape that had so inspired her became her life. She created light filled gardens with blooms and veggies visited daily by birds and bees. Her gardens became the main focus of the many new paintings. It was during these years she was unwittingly led to discover the works of Gerhard Richter, Joan Mitchell and Jackson Pollack. Her imagination was stirred by their use of colors, expressive brushstrokes, their reliance on intuition and their individuality. With new found fervor Casey-Mason adopted their approach which has dominated her art making over the past ten years. Celebrating this freedom, her love of color and wonder now translates onto her canvases within the style of abstractions which are never far from the rhythms of nature. the hues sitting well and resonating with intuitive marks. Casey-Mason now resides in the U.S. 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 or days, 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." -Peggy Casey-Mason

Painting:Oil on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:20 W x 16 H x 0.1 D in

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