LAGSTEIN GALLERY
Karen Edelmann:
Escaping realism, I can imagine earth, wind, water, shadow,
color and clouds as I want them to be, rather than as documents or portraits. But sometimes there's a view, full of meaning, that captures your heart and insists on a more faithful image. Both appear in my work.
But above all, I love the joy and freedom of working with oils. Applying color, true or arbitrary, layering thickly, scraping or withholding, sometimes color dark and dense, other times airy and translucent, it is always a pleasure. And while I sometimes try for quiet neutrals and smoky grays, color often takes the upper hand.
Susan Lais Hostetler
Watercolor paints and pen and ink are the tools to which I've always gravitated. I discovered a dark lovely bottle of ink and a nib pen when I was young, and I've been a fan ever since. Watercolors I picked up because they went with ink it seemed to me. I've been carrying around little watercolor sets since I was a child, and although as an adult I know that watercolors are hard, fast, and difficult to control, I nearly always find the colors pleasing, even if I think I've botched it.
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Beverly Miller
When I’m immersed in nature, I feel the complexity of our times glide off my brain, and comfort my heart.
I try to convey that feeling tooters through my paintings and drawings. Once an individual can actually confront their place on this planet in relationship to nature, I feel that we can understand and move forward with our lives in a way that contributes to the better nature of human beings.
My vision of nature and my focus is what I’m trying to put in the minds of others.
It may not be what others see but I’m opening my world to them.
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Ellen Murphy
I like a landscape with trees and buildings as much as anyone does, but when I start painting I often seem to veer offtrack. How is a landscape different with flat color areas rather than amorphous? What is a landscape like in a dream? Or on another planet? Or up close to the plants?