“Summer 2013 – Flood; Consume.”
Acrylic on Canvas, 36” x 24”
Remember the Flood?
June. This painting started with a pleasant, meandering river flowing beside a line of trees…a week or two later we were drowning under a seething, roiling mass of angry brown water; and there was no way this painting wasn’t going to be affected by such an incredible sight.
And here’s what you don’t see when viewing the canvases online...
-Kate
“May 2013 – On the Verge…”
Acrylic on Canvas, 36” x 24”
This painting has been all but finished for awhile..and then finished for awhile longer yet. So it belongs more to early-mid spring and May than the beginning of summer. And it is decidedly flood free…
-Kate
“April 2013 – Languid and Brisk”
Acrylic on Paper, 38.75” x 21.25”
Warm sunlight. Cold biting winds. Golden brown grasses showing green. Snow-capped mountains… Spring! And another painting I am truly pleased with… and likely my last “work on paper” (for now).
-Kate
“January 2013 – New Year”
Acrylic on Paper, 29.5” x 14.7”
“February 2013 – Hum and Hush”
Acrylic on Canvas, 36” x 24”
Two paintings… worked on at about the same time and now finally finished.
“Hum and Hush” took a lot of work to complete. It is a painting…a picture I had in my mind…a reflection of that time of day in winter when the sun has set and the sky is that certain shade of blue. When the lights of the city begin to click and pop across the wide and darkening spaces.
I am so very, very pleased with it. And never more have I realized how much I need to push for what I feel is “perfection” in my paintings. Of course it’s subjective, it’s entirely up to me. And while I won’t know what perfection is in a piece until I achieve it, what matters most is that I know it can be achieved. Nothing else will satisfy, nothing else will do…
“New Year” is…just an image of a feeling. Like all my work it is an echo of experiences and memories. Pictures behind pictures.The sun sets, a year ends and a new one stretches out…
-Kate
“City Lines and Winter Spaces…”
Acrylic on Canvas, 36” x 48”
…where the Deep echoes in year’s end; over hill and valley and the snowy bends of prairie grasses, glass towers and black roads.
This painting took over 3 months to finish. It developed really quickly and then got miserably stuck. What you see now is the product of many major changes and layers and attempts to get it just “right”…even if I was never quite sure what that was supposed to be…
I must be completely satisfied…I must be content with every small area….I must work the painting past the point of boredom and find something new. There is no “good enough”. These paintings can only find fulfillment in a proper resolution. And sometimes that means many, many changes and seemingly endless revisions.
-Kate
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