“Madame Baa-Rhône’s Place”- oil painting Painting

“Madame Baa-Rhône’s Place”...Memories of France... As I relived the times in which I viewed Madame’s property for sale my memory reminded me of several things I hadn’t considered when mulling over whether to buy her antique cottage. Each time I visited, Madame would be standing in her garden-hand on one hip-a sickle in the other and never with a smile on her face. Completely wet behind the ears, I was immediately drawn to the charm of her wreck of a place (of course I didn’t think of it as a “wreck” then...I thought it was lovely). Although I did make an offer for her property I decided to pull out as my gut told me “don’t do it”. As I worked on this painting for days, scraping off several iterations, my thoughts brought me to the real reason I pulled out of the deal. Madame’s property was down a long rural road with no neighbors in sight (not ideal for someone living alone). Her cottage was surrounded by old dilapidated farm buildings guaranteed to be standing till they fell on their own (buildings aren’t knocked down in France like they are in the US) and heaven knows what creatures were happy to be hanging out in them! The artwork is unframed but has 2-inch sides painted gray so it can be hung without a frame. A certificate of authenticity accompanies all paintings. Madame's name purposely misspelled. Images in-situ may not be to scale. 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, the reliance on intuition and their individuality. Casey-Mason realized a personal creative break through and 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 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 minutes, hours or days, eventually I do know when the canvas no longer wants more of me and it is done. Life doesn’t provide the chance to redo things or the chance to always determine the end result of things. For me, creating art does." -Peggy Casey-Mason

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 36 H x 2 D in

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