Along the Way: Jean Herman wants her viewer to experience the same depth of wonder that she feels every day as she lives her life and experience all its wonders. Accompany her in traveling through a spiritual journey where the world is better understood through art; the world we live in is complex and beautiful and Jean use art to respond to it.
Colorado landscapes still touch her deeply. Jean has lived in Colorado for 20 years, and she reacts to this beautiful place by interpreting her feelings and overwhelmed senses with her own distinctive art form, which uses color, collage, and stitch. She loves the mountains, rock formations and rushing water. But her work includes the many other beautiful places she has visited. In France she experienced the color and fragrance of lavender fields.
Color is utilized to interpret the unique range of people and places that make this life so interesting and unique. Jean interprets the people she finds along the way through her art. Sometimes she draws and paints a study of relationships; other times she interprets people more abstractly. Jean uses her photos as a memory guide then translates ideas into a fabric collage using hand painted fabric as well as commercial fabrics where layers create color and depth. Stitching is the magic that turns color, shape, and line into a fabric painting.
Phyllis Rider’s artistic practice revolves around an exploration of the profound impact of color, shape, line and simplicity. She demonstrates her emotions and ignites a sense of wonder through the interplay of these fundamental elements.
In her new mixed media and monotype works she meticulously selected and harmonized colors exploring their interactions and emotions they evoke when juxtaposed or challenged by an adjacent color. The shapes serve as the building blocks of her artistic vocabulary. From geometric forms to organic contours she embraces their inherent visual weight and symbolic potential by manipulating shapes to evoke a sense of balance, tension, or tranquility. The lines act as movement and rhythm lending to a sense of direction and artistic expression. Some pieces relate to aerial patterns others create their own environment. Believing in the elegance of simplicity she invites the viewer to embark on a visual journey that sparks a dialogue to see the world through a renewed perspective.