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Statement
These shapes reference portals, vaginas, the goddess, they are hard edge feminist paintings, experiments in color dynamics, assembled in layers.
This work is inspired by several color theorists—Joseph Albers, his book Interaction of Color, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Theory of Colours, Emily Noyes Vanderpoel Color Problems and Mary Gartside’s Essays on light and shade. Studying Albers and Gartside has taught me to explore color as a science by keeping a color journal noting my optical reactions and partialities. Goethe’s premise, that color is located in the body, inspires philosophical ideas. The oft-used example of staring at the sun and then looking away to see a residual after-image of color proposed that the body perceives color and produces it. I find this last bit fascinating - the body produces color.
The title I’ve borrowed for The Ecchoing Green is from the poem by William Blake. The poem is a contrast of man and nature, birth and death, what is close and what is at a distance in a landscape, and how (green) nature reverberates. (Ecchoing with two c’s is not a misspelling – it is how William Blake spelled the word in his poem of the same name)
Mary wrote, An Essay on the New Theory of Colours (1805)
Emily wrote, Color problems: A practical manual for the lay student of color (1902).
