Acknowledging Uncertainty
August 14 – August 20
Show Times: 10am – 4pm, daily August 14-20
Exhibition Details:
| Art in general, and painting in particular feed my primal need for expression. My process is one that solely depends on intuition and reaction to elements of form, line, colour, and pattern I create by means of collage, gestural mark making and painting fields of colour. This is where uncertainty rears it’s beautiful head. To quote Mandy Hale from Tiny Buddha: Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible. My response to the initial foundation I create on a painting may be continuing to add more elements covering up all that came before; thereby removing it from view, but knowing that it hovers below the surface. Sometimes, I will go back and uncover portions of the initial work. This is where the the question arises of when to stop. I find I advance and then retreat; all the while knowing that the finish line is out there in front of me. It could take me a week, a month or a day to get to this point. Then something happens and the forward momentum carries me there. One last quote by an amazing woman regarding uncertainty: “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.” by Gilda Radner The process of creating a painting for me fills me with “delicious ambiguity” and is as important, if not more, as the end result. I hope you enjoy my work as much as I do making it! |
Participants: Irene Orrom
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