luminous depths Painting

The paintings of Cecile Romat are concerned primarily with transcendence. Her visually experiential approach to the non-linear surface is contemplative of light and the motion of light. The fragility of the very nature of light and of our perception of light is evident. Darkness is always but an impulse away. Romat's ethereal incandescence, achieved through her use of dry metallic pigments overlaid or underlaid with deep varnishes and imbued with true hues, create resulting forms which are at once intentional in their affirmation of illumination and yet remain changeling with their concern about the motion of light and the dark impulse. As her work progressed from her use of traditional oils with hints of metallic gleam to her later work wherein she developed the layering of fragile dry metallic pigments embedded within other mediums and forms, one can see the development of a visual structure and vocabulary uniquely suited to addressing chiaroscuric form and meditation. These canvases and panels are not meant to be statements but observations. The surface and our perceptions change as light changes, as the colors of the sky change. As the day turns to night so in turn do they change to other hues and shapes. These surfaces are abstract as choreography or music is abstract. They are the form they are in the medium in which they are expressed. We invite you to spend time with these works and to know what they have to say to you. Today. It may change tomorrow.