Dawn Peterson: Dec 2009 Archive

Fishing shack and fishing village on the shore.

Gone Fishing 2010 12 x 12"

These paragraphs
are included in the interest
of more fully explaining what I am doing
and why,
for the benefit of anyone
who might be interested
in knowing.

A B O U T T H I S A R T • D E C 2 0 0 9

My canvases most often begin with an experiment,
but I think they are Naïve or Folk Art.

Drawings, designs, narratives and strong colors are important to me.
I have become fond of some motifs or symbols that I have used over and over, especially apple trees, plowed land, and mountains that seem like they might be our Mt. Hood or Mt. St. Helens.

My favorite of all time is the plowed rainbow, similar to the ones
seen in "The World At Our Feet".
I know how to give depth to a scene, but I often find that looks wrong to me. I don't as a person have the luxury of a unified point of view in my life.
There are many valid perspectives.
They just have to work together in the whole construction of a life or a painting.
And paintings are, after all, two dimensional, not three.