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<span class="text"><font color="#333333" class="text"> <p> <meta content="" name="Title"> <meta content="" name="Keywords"> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"> <meta content="Microsoft Word 2008" name="Generator"> <meta content="Microsoft Word 2008" name="Originator"> <link href="file://localhost/Users/laina/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" /><span style="font-size: medium;"><big><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG /> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting /> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables /> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx /> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> </span></big></span><style type="text/css"></style><span style="font-size: medium;"><big><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>2003 - PRESENT</strong></span></span></big> </span></meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> </p> <p> </p> <p> <meta content="" name="Title"> <meta content="" name="Keywords"> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"> <meta content="Microsoft Word 2008" name="Generator"> <meta content="Microsoft Word 2008" name="Originator"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>EARLY ABSTRACT</strong></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /> </span></o:p></span> </meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">An art class I visited in January 2003 put me in touch with a wax medium with which to seal paper, gloves to facilitate painting in oil using my fingers, and scratching tools. Earlier I had done a long series of drawings based on written words which were sometimes legible and sometimes not. With new tools and new drawing experiments I was ready to explore familiar territory in a new way. After many years of careful immediate observation and recording of things seen, I began using these new means to say something about things remembered and / or imagined. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b style="">AMARYLLIS</b></span><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">In January 2006 a gift of an amaryllis was a source of great delight! Line drawings were done first. Following these were experiments in collage combined with writing and drawing. Cutting the shapes for the collages was an extension of the drawing process as I ‘drew’ with a single-edge razor blade. The bold lines and exuberance of amaryllis continue to inspire me annually.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b style="">ON LINES</b></span><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">As an interior designer and space planner I do many architectural drawings: floor plans, electrical plans, elevations and cabinet details. The precise lines of my architectural drawings provide the ground and take-off point for these drawings and paintings.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b style="">OF MUSIC</b></span><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Listening to live music with eyes closed is a colorful experience for me. Some of these paintings come from very specific experiences:</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Stravinsky”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I was first inspired to draw and paint about music following a December 2007 performance of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” by the Kirov Orchestra. The final movement of this piece rises to a brilliant climax. In “Stravinsky”, diagonal lines reinforced with purple-black paint represent the rhythmical framework of the tympani and all other colors and gestures in the painting represent the full orchestra.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Chord”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">This represents very specifically one brass chord in “Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite” by Chico O’Farrill. The piece begins with a serene melody, here shown as the broad, stretched out curves at the bottom of the painting. This smooth sound is then pierced by a 5-trumpet and 4-trombone chord! This is shown as a vertical line with stacked up notes and vibrations careering off and out beyond the edges of the painting. The red-orange and yellow tones here reflect the bright resonance of brass.</span><o:p></o:p><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Silvery Stride”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">This was inspired by a stride piano concert. At one point five pianists were playing all at once on two pianos. The painting / drawing is a general recollection of this wonderfully spirited and zany performance – the left hand part shown in the strong straight lines with zig-zags and the flighty, liquid right hand part shown in the lighter spiraling and fanning shapes</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b style="">OTHER ABSTRACT PAINTINGS</b></span><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Writing and drawing continue to be the under layer in most of these pieces.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> <br /> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b style="">2009 / 2010</b></span><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Getting on with it!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></o:p></p> <p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> <!--EndFragment--> </span></p></font></span><br>
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