Phyllis Wild
ARTIST STATEMENT:
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It’s pretty simple: I paint because I choose to. I have always been in love with color and I have always been enchanted with the way light plays with color. After years of building art glass windows and panels to indulge that love, I’ve discovered that with a paint brush I can enjoy manipulating the colors and light dance with more originality and freedom and achieve a higher joy. I worked for over 25 years as a photographic artist, so it made sense when I began painting a few years ago, that I would be most comfortable painting from photographs, my own especially. And, since my medium in the photo arts was water-based dyes (following years of Prismacolor pencils and graphite), it also explained my immediate passion for watercolor. When I spot a potential composition; an object, a scene, a sight in nature, the way the sunshine can make a flower petal glow; something that affects me on that gut level, something I believe intrinsically will create a wondrous painting—I photograph it. I shoot it from various angles in order to be able to capture as much of that feeling as I can. Back in my studio then, I transform that photo composition; I enliven and enhance with luminous watercolors that which my camera can only hint at. I want my viewer to see and feel what I saw and felt when I first laid eyes on my subject. Phyllis Abate Wild |
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