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ARTIST STATEMENT
Making art, “painting a painting
The Art, the history, the tradition, is too much there….
I don’t want to know the answer before but want an answer that can surprise.
- Eva Hesse, diary entry, December 14, 1964
The early sprout in the spring garden promises and implies the full life cycle.
Being partly done, unfinished, not fully developed embodies an optimistic promise for things continuing, things in the middle of something - more to come.
Combining intuitive decisions with a formal structure built with veils of color created from marks and stenciled forms – the paintings reference garden arrangement, natural patterns and textiles. The use of color in my paintings plays a range from atmospheric to saturation.
Most of daily life appears conclusive-making if difficult to fully stay engaged.
My paintings leave shapes fragmented and undone – something left out- something to be filled in. The work gives clues and leaves evidence-providing some kind of visual implication; an insinuation of continuance.
Sally Bowring
2007
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