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Dark Tracks
painting by Gretchen Skillman
Pulse 1
painting by Gretchen Skillman
Story in Soil
painting by Gretchen Skillman
From Gretchen Skillman's artist statement: "I'm interested in dialogues, transformations, and mythic visions with ventures into emotional dislocation. Art channels many psychological nuances within me and around me – patinas and rust have been my continuing tools – replicating and expanding on nature's own brush strokes, reworking through my own prism. My art is an inquiry into beauty, grace, love, tensions, dislocations, pain, and redemption. The eternal struggle between artist and audience continues with me; some of my paintings might be about seeing and the responsibility that comes with it. Art is a survival mechanism for me (inspiration is on occasion, a merciless muse). Painting allows me to lose track of linear thought and time; I need to paint not just to express myself, but to live at all. My heart tells me vulnerability is the guardian of integrity." |
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