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Karen Wisniewski |
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| Light and color consume me. Noticing the faint tinge of orange in the trees before they leaf in spring, the blue green shadow on a face, the play of bright light and deep shadows in a TV scene – this is the color and light I see around me. I am inspired by the pair of swans as they drift by on the lake, the woman shopping at a summer craft fair, the new bloom at the forest’s edge, the bright sunlit face of a child on a warm spring day and the neon glow cast on a couple through the smoky haze of a Key West bar. I yearn to capture those images and to stretch and explore them with paint.
I enjoy working to develop a strong composition, then an interesting design while focusing on pattern, texture, color, and light while creating my vision on a blank sheet of paper. Painting gives me deep personal joy and is a love and passion that is an essential part of who I am. I hope others share in the joy with me.
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.”
- John Ruskin, The Two Paths (lecture I) |
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