Ebb Painting

Inspired by color field painters like Jules Olitski, Mark Rothko, and Helen Frankenthaler as well as photographers Eric Cahan, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Debra Bloomfield, she captures expression that’s transient and intentionally uncomplicated. Something reductive but reflective, using color as luminous expression rather than illustration. Ericka invites the viewer to enter the painting, slow down, unclench and access the soft, blurry consciousness of waking up. Sink into the luminous light of the horizon before the sun sets, when your mind is quiet and open to what surfaces from the stillness. She feels the sky is the perfect metaphor for life’s expansiveness; whether open and light or dark and ominous. It is ultimately beautiful in its vibrancy, duality and impermanence. Or as Pema Chodron wrote “You are the sky. Everything else-it's just the weather.”