California painter and print maker Inez Storer has captivated my interest for years. I have seen her pieces in person and their size, vibrancy and layered depths are incredible up close.
In her artist statement, she says this: "Most of the time I enter my studio with an agenda, but then something happens, and I let the painting take me on its own journey. To be surprised while painting is the real experience, the reason to keep on doing the work. I have objects, bits and pieces, images cut from a myriad of sources and whatever I can collect that inform my work, or sometimes I actually attach materials of some kind to the surface of the painting. It is a way of going shopping every time I am in the studio. And artists love to shop in whatever form that activity can take."
And she closes with this: "We are all like blotters. I am a blotter, absorbing all the different aspects of what I experience. Painting is evolutionary, and a grand experience."
Very cool. I really like the last piece. Would like to know the story behind that one.
Posted by: Dave | 01/14/2013 at 12:41 PM