KATHLEEN BRENNAN
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On Painting
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Thoughts on painting ...
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Brennan Studio
With my paintings, I am looking to capture the ephemeral zone where forces come together – sensing where sky and ground meet, feeling the distance between silence and chaos, or a glimpse of the gap that lies between thoughts - it is that space where I softly coax light and color out of the collision of forces. The under-painting serves to expose this relationship of forces; color is applied in various films, some analogous and some contrasting that fit together to create an overall field. The filming of transparent color allows subsequent colors underneath to interact, respond, and dialogue between the layers; colors and textures meet and softly develop relationships that are held together by cords of energy. ----------------- I am seeking conceivable visual similes for the constellations of our human conditions – contraction versus expansion, the interaction between edge and area, indefinite merging – these elements giving clues to felt conditions like force or pressure, being held or contained, or the sensation of floating in an airy firmament. I am romantically pushing a quality of light, color and space that is meaningful to me and, I hope, to others. The paintings exist as a reverie, an amorphous recognition like an early morning haze over the landscape, gently shifting and changing shape, where borders cease definition and mysteries unfold. |
| “Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.” |
~ Frank Lloyd Wright