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About Painting the Human Figure
I first experimented with this series of paintings, using the human figure as the dominant element in an all over pattern while living in Mexico, 1978 - 1979. The figure creates the shapes, the forms, the tensions and the emotions as the model shifts and moves through the surrounding objects and scenery. By incorporating light changes, which occur with the use of natural light, there is a three-dimensional quality in the paintings, as opposed to a purely flat pattern.
These paintings are started with a live model, posed in the studio or out doors. Then worked upon without the model present to bring up the pattern and the all-over movement and emotion. I have been drawing the figure from life since childhood and am forever amazed and facinated with its ever-changing qualities. Our bodies are both physically strong and weak, both a carrier of emotional strength and a giver of these strengths. Bodies are forever a beautiful form to inspire paintings.
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The three above original oil paintings were exhibited at The Cape Cod Museum of Art in the 21 IN TRURO Exhibition, 2005. Included is the on-site painting done in the Provincelands. On the occasion of the exhibition, Elizabeth Ives Hunter, the Executive Director, wrote in the catalog, "The 21 in Truro is a truly unique group of artists ... a school of artists ...".
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