 Artist's StatementIf I am asked to describe my paintings, I usually say that they are mostly abstract landscapes. The truth is, though, that their subject matter is almost irrelevant as far as I am concerned. Matisse once said, "I don't paint things; I paint relationships," and it is relationships that fascinate me as well. I love to see the way blues enliven greens. I love to watch shapes come into being and then somehow dissolve or perhaps gain force due to the influence of a neighboring shape. I love to discover the tensions created by dancing lines that seem to hold earth and sky together in a suggestion of cosmic harmony, of the fundamental unity of spirit and matter. Thus, I am less concerned with making an immediate visual impact than with drawing the viewer into the painting, in which I hope he or she will find the wholenesss which has at its core a love for this world and all things in it. |
E-mail Martee Levi