Colorful and sensual STILL LIFE PAINTINGS

enter main still life exhibit here
Colorful realistic and abstract still-life paintings.
Contemporary still lifes
Contemporary colorful still-life paintings
Acrylic painting and collage.
Oil pastel on paper.
Oil painting on canvas.

My STILL LIFE and INTERIOR paintings spring from my love of the physical world, especially everyday objects, furniture, and plants.  My first paintings and drawings were done from the objects around me: colorful , richly textured, and with strong form, and my still life paintings celebrate the sensual aspects of both subject and media.  And my still lifes are frankly decorative, using bold color, line, texture, and pattern to animate strong compositions.

Although always mindful of the abstract underpinnings of art, I love painting still lifes because objects provide a foil for unexpected twists of dimension, design, and allusion.  I often use patterns to activate the space around the objects in my still-life paintings.  Objects are temporary configurations of energy and matter into recognizable forms.  Both "solid" form, and "empty" space are full of energy.  I like to represent both form and energy -- a moment of visual balance between figure and ground, stability and motion, excitement and composure.


Abstract still life art. Decorative still lifes. Contemporary realistic still lifes. Still lifes with plants.
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