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Peg's Show
The Artist's Statement
Paintings From an Artist-In-Residency
With the exhibit “In a Good Light” Peg Robinson shares her experience of an extraordinary environment in the redwood forests of Northern California, the estate and legacy of Morris Graves (1910-‐2001). Graves, a member of a group of artists who were described as the Northwest School of Visionary Art, was well known for his early works committed to the transcendent vision of the inner-‐eye, and in later years his flower paintings created at his California studio.
In 2014 Peg was awarded a two-‐week artist-‐in-‐residency by the Morris Graves Foundation to create art in and around the home and studio of the late painter. The paintings shown here today are the work from that residency.
Influenced and inspired by Graves’ artifacts, approach and the surrounding landscape, Peg expresses her direct engagement with the animal and plant life around a 2000-‐year old rift lake.
The subject matter in Peg’s paintings comes directly from objects found in Graves’ studio or home, or from life observed in the surrounding environment. His shells from nearby Pacific beaches, a collection of bottles and cups used in his still-‐life flower paintings, flowers from his garden, the wildlife in around the lake, the trees of the land, and the detritus of the forest floor serve as markers of the time spent at this remarkable locale. Additional influence and inspiration came from Graves’ use of rice paper and of course the October light of Northern California.
Using watercolors as her primary medium, Peg worked “en plein aire” as well as in the studio -‐ sometimes using a direct painting approach but also letting paintings develop over time from observation and contemplation. Rice paper became part of certain paintings and, at other times, part of the process of applying paint through stippling, stenciling and mono-‐ printing techniques.
Morris Graves once wrote of painting “…that unutterable beauty no thing or space is free from”. Beauty is in abundance at his estate and deeply influenced Peg’s choice of subject matter and approach. She hopes that translates for you into an enjoyable glimpse into a beautifully wild and wonderful world.
Video
This is not about watercolor, it is about how different artists look at the same thing and come up with very a different painting.