If I am going to do this blog, I want to start with at least a little logic.
So I will start off with the collection notes to the exhibition I did in 2009 at Tourette Sur Loup at Le Chateau. Since that time, I have left painting and taken up engraving to the exclusion of every other art form save photography.
But reading over this synopsis I did with a friend, I think it largely holds true for me now even though one could say I have gone through a long fallow period since then. I would question "the exciting , emerging creator" bit. That's a bit rich.
But….. still, once an artist always an artist, I believe .
I will get back to the first collections on the theme of "intimacy" later on in the blog.
Mary PAYNE
Artiste, Plasticienne
The
patina of an old wall, the gash in the trunk of a tree, the color of a dove’s
wing… these are some of the
sources that inspire the art of Mary Payne.
From
these impressions, the artist creates pieces that vary from small, sometimes
sensual images in nuanced, delicate tones to bold, colorful, even chaotic
expressions. Using ancient motifs as a point of departure, Mary Payne paints
from the circle, the crevasse, the almond, the “Y” for example, all elemental
forms found in nature, which have the power to inspire us directly.
In
the collection are works based on textural interest, as in the
"Ciacatrice" series, a multilayered work, which developed from the
formation of rifts in the paper as the artist worked the material. These scars
evoke the concept of aging and it's potential for beauty and force. And in this first series, we see the
idea of the secret, hidden place, as a metaphor for human connection and the
struggle to be revealed to one another.
In
the new collection of works on canvas, the artist departs from the theme of
intimacy found in the small format pieces. With the larger works echoing "Abstract
Expressionism" of the anti- figurative school of New York, we see a purer
form of abstraction. Many of the
large works play on the tension between control and its loss. The artist feels that true abstraction
is the artist getting out of the way and waiting for" an honest moment to
arrive". Always in all
the work shown by Ms Payne there is an almost musical sense of composition,
harmony and resolution. Always
there is attention to color as a driving force.
For
this artist, to create is to go to an unknown domain of new sensations, nuances
and unforeseen movements. Out of
this universe, come her revelations of, the ephemeral, the fragile, and the
mysterious. We invite you to
plunge into her world and to
discover an exciting, emerging creator.
