This Friday’s Feature artist is Emily Silver!
I love the way she uses watercolors and actual sediment to paint on paper!
I love the way she uses watercolors and actual sediment to paint on paper!
From her artist statement:
Raised in a family of geologists and artists whose ancestors took part in the settling and mapping of the West,
I have deep affinity for the desert, its history, natural systems, and the dynamics of our interaction with it.
While the physical properties of watercolor are the same as those that sculpt the earth, my inquiry involves the unmappable essence of specific places – the psychological, atmospheric and spiritual experienced during very deliberate walks.
My art is continually inspired and renewed by real and imagined visits to the American deserts where I engage in a disciplined practice of walking, mapping, research, documentation, and, ultimately, painting.
Raised in a family of geologists and artists whose ancestors took part in the settling and mapping of the West,
I have deep affinity for the desert, its history, natural systems, and the dynamics of our interaction with it.
While the physical properties of watercolor are the same as those that sculpt the earth, my inquiry involves the unmappable essence of specific places – the psychological, atmospheric and spiritual experienced during very deliberate walks.
My art is continually inspired and renewed by real and imagined visits to the American deserts where I engage in a disciplined practice of walking, mapping, research, documentation, and, ultimately, painting.
