Artist : Maxine Solomon
studio: 14b1
website: www.maxinesolomon.com
email: maxinesolo at yahoo dot com

An image forms in my mind and the seed of a painting is sewn. As the image takes shape on the canvas it also takes control of the process and the outcome. The painter Richard Diebenkorn summed it up well - "I can never accomplish what I want. Only what I would have wanted had I thought of it in the first place."

The combination of quiet glazes with active brushstrokes helps to capture a moment in time, leaving the viewer to wonder if the image is merely an abstract painting or a colorful landscape. Delve deeper within the layers of paint to find hidden images and meanings or merely travel within these layers to see an intricate and textured surface - a choice left to the viewer. As I work, each painting speaks to me not only of the beauty of our world but also of its ecological endangerment - it's preservation as well as its withering away.