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| Here I am with Pinky, the sweetest, dearest little cat ever. |
For Joy of Sharing
Ever since I ’ ve been able to hold a pencil, I have been enthralled with making images. It has been my way of embracing the world and sharing my visions.
Painting is a kind of private performance in which my goal is to be a transparency for the voice of direction I hear within me. This voice apparently originates from a source more expansive than my own consciousness as I am often led to do things I ’ ve never imagined.
As I listen, I am no longer aware of the world, everything dissolves into sequences of form, color, and brush work. I strive for changes of tactile, sensual paint which describes subject yet is enjoyable on its own.
These changes and layering which take place over the surface of the painting I liken to the rhythm, tone, and layering of orchestration of music, which instead occurs over time. As a consequence, music, and especially the viewing of live performances, is essential to my growth and enrichment as an artist, as I feel that I absorb the spirit of the performances and later apply it to my own work, in paint.
The immediacy of mediums on both paper and canvas may readily reveal my thought process as I build up images. Yet rather than pursuing a foreseen and known end result, each change I make to the canvas takes the work towards an end which is not predetermined. My method, therefore, most closely parallels music improvisation.
My work is executed on site as well as from reference material gleaned from travel and research. Still, the spirit additionally comes from the inspiration I ’ ve gained from family, friends, colleagues and students.
To help others have what I have enjoyed most in life, I have taught classes of drawing, painting and two dimensional design at various colleges, an art school and a university. Over a year ago, I took a fulltime art position at Imperial Valley College in California. I am also a freelance writer specializing in artist interviews. Sharing is the engine driving my creativity and happiness in life.
I ’ m currently studying Hawaiian slack key guitar (the predecessor of steel string) with my 12-string, growing orchids and dreaming of warm beaches, pristine mountains, crystalline seas and high altitudes.
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| My cat Chessa is a beautiful blue-cream tortie Persian. |
| Copyright © 2004-6 by Carol Hegarty |
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Aloha . . .
Carol
