~A few words about my art…

For the most part, my paintings are intuitive and process-based. Each piece evolves over months of adding layers, scraping back, and putting aside – to be picked up later and viewed with fresh eyes.

My mixed media surfaces reveal a sense of time and depth through layers of collage, paint and mark-making. I work in acrylics, charcoal, ink, and pastels – and my tools are my hands, trowels, paint scrapers, brayers, palette knives and brushes.

Artists who influence my work include: Wm DeKooning, Joan Mitchell, Kline, Cy Twombly, Motherwell, Diebenkorn, Zao Wu Ki, Anthony Eyton, Fairfield Porter, Milton Avery, Alfred Leslie, Davis Tress, and Anselm Keifer.

After decades of counseling and life coaching, I am aware of how a successful art practice parallels that of a successful life.

We come into this world with nothing on the way to becoming. We are wildly creative because we haven’t yet been taught what does and doesn’t “go together.” Therefore, we dance between periods of performing and daydreaming. Between times of being wildly excited and feeling crushed because a friend called us a name.

As we add layers and layers of knowledge and experience we head down a certain path only to find we need to reassess, scrape back, and change directions. It involves risk. It involves failure. And it can take time until something sticks.

Of course it isn’t simple. But it is worth it!

Thank you for coming!

I appreciate your visiting my art website and hope to see you here again. If you are interested in purchasing a piece remember Damali Ayo’s advice: “Art should make you think and feel. It does not have to match your couch.”

Cheers!

~Vicki P