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Claire BowenBoldBrush Recommends: Claire Bowen
Read on boldbrush.substack.com Welcome to BoldBrush Magazine, a daily newsletter featuring today’s finest visual artists. Today's Newsletter is Brought to You by BoldBrush Art SocietyBoldBrush Art Society - a free art society where art lovers, collectors and artists can connect with each other, to see inspiring art, and to share art and business ideas. BoldBrush Recommends: Claire BowenGet Notified When Claire Posts New Art BiographyWelcome! As you look through these pages, you'll notice a focus on composition, color, and texture rather than subject. When those three components are balanced, they create a whole that satisfies or speaks. Or maybe inspires, which is especially nice. Inspiration and connectedness are what I hope to achieve in making abstract rather than realistic art. Two things usually sneak into my drawings and paintings: elements of nature and aspects of the spiritual. I'm interested in the relationship between past and present, light, freedom, color, and motion; and the many ways nature links us to the Divine. Often my landscapes suggest aerial views-with reference to flight, higher perspective, and seeing the world differently. I like to use words, iconography, and pattern . . . because I'm a word person and an OCD person. A fascination with old, worn surfaces-which convey so much human living-shows up frequently. I use collaged, marked-up layers to develop paintings with a history that symbolizes history in life. I love the visceral look of paint slathered on a surface and the way it obscures or reveals drawing and marks. That process of building up layers of painting and drawing creates a story. I want the viewer to be lured in through the "story line" of a strong composition, and then come close for the quiet dialogue. These are some of the feelings and ideas I try to convey in my work, but the thrill comes when it communicates. I hope something here sparks thoughtfulness, happiness, joy, a new perspective. If it does, please get in touch. I'd love to hear from you. Who Does Kevin Macpherson Trust with His Website? FASO, of Course!Get Started Free for 30 Days and Learn Why. New Artwork by FASO Members Your art could be here tomorrow, for free.
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