Jeanette Wilson
2008

My work began with large, clean, and colorful florals and has progressed through more abstracted florals and then into non-figurative abstraction.  I don’t cling to one style, but am riding a rhythm that challenges me to continue to explore the motion of form and color. I purposely push myself beyond the eye-brain connection and into the heart-hand connection as the observer and not the doer.  With this view I don’t get lost in expectation or disappointment, but am constantly excited as one who watches a creation, anxiously waiting to see what appears. I become just a tool in the process.   

In my work the paint is either thickly textured, as in most of my abstract work, or extremely smooth, as in my florals.  I am now exploring the glazing process in a thick, textured technique and I find that color is becoming a theme in and of itself in my work. My new glazed work is being painted on larger canvases and, because of the intense depth of color, I find it draws me into the painting itself. Recently I have also resumed creating fine art photography with the Table Muse Project, a series of abstract photographs which resemble abstract paintings.

Some artists find themselves through their painting.  I feel that the paint, as well as the camera, found me and both are expressing an essence and energy, which is the core of each of us.  I now know the divine is the seat of existence and I am experiencing the expression of it first hand.  There are yet undiscovered levels that I know exist and my goal is to experience them and then translate them into images.