Kathleen Elsey Plein Air Paintings California

Kathleen Elsey's plein air painting of "Julia’s Garden" 18” x 24”
Previously exhibited:
Carmel International Plein Air Festival, 2006
National Association of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, New York, NY 2010
Kathleen Elsey Solo Exhibition, Thos. Moser Gallery, San Francisco 2012
Julia’s Garden is in the Carmel Valley in California. It was a cold foggy day on the coast, but just a couple of miles inland it was a perfect sunny and warm day in May at Julia's garden. There are rows of vegetables and flowers and grass and weeds looking overwhelmingly complex. But I have a propensity lately for seeing through hopelessly unclear situations and forcing sense and order into them. I try to forget what objects are before me and instead see shapes and color and light. Stroke by stroke, my brush transforms the space I see onto the canvas. I am never completely happy with my paintings until months later, and sometimes not then. But usually, time makes the eye forgiving and the mind accepting. |
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