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I am a painter and have practiced daily meditation for more than 30 years. My personal meditation practice has defined the way I view the world and affected my approach to painting. I am seeking to use my paintings to allow the viewer to experience calmness, peace and energy, just as they might from practicing meditation. My objective is to draw the viewer to step away from their daily life and to be fully present to an internal peace while in front of the canvas. I seek to communicate with the viewer by appealing to curiosity and an attraction to the lovely, to the peaceful. This painting with its direct representation of everyday experiences of the sky, clouds and water invokes a sense timelessness, and taps into our collective consciousness via common experiences. I have chosen to reconstruct familiar spatial appearances, informed by the common experiences of weather and environment in order to evoke shared human emotions such as peace, joy, sorrow, and ecstasy and to engage the emotions of the viewer directly. The reaction to sunny days or rainy days is universal. My focus is not on reproducing realistic representation of clouds and atmosphere, but rather on the interplay between colors and light and shadow, which has a direct and deeper emotional impact on the viewer.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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RitaMarie was born in Providence RI and studied painting at Worcester Art Museum School before attending Bennington College, where she studied with Pat Adams and Phillip Woffard and received an MFA in painting and sculpture. Initially drawn to color field painting, her exposure to the remnants of strict formalism at Bennington caused her to begin exploring figure/ground relationships and the inclusion of cues from the outer world. She began thinking of how abstraction could hold meanings and act metaphorically. She sought ways to engage her viewers who might otherwise pass over color field work as pretty decorations. Moving to NYC her painting continued this shift including more referential markers. She pushed her painting into a realm between landscape and abstraction. The abstract use of color creates an experience of light and place, the color and the light act as phenomena in the painting. At this time she began to practice meditation and began to think of art as a spiritual expression and her paintings as an extension of meditative work. She strove to express in her paintings, the lessons of spiritual growth and the internal events which we all experience, which change and shape us. In the past few years she has begun to work in series to focus and structure her work. A narrative is carried throughout the paintings, the narrative of the interchange between the artist and the work.
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