Amy Darrah – Lafayette Park

Description

Artist Statement

Painting the landscape with divisions and geometry is how I represent an everchanging visual world. While spending time painting outside, I notice how the
light will shift, the clouds change shape, colors alter and people move about. My
hope is to convey a feeling of balance that is also shifting. Finding this type of
composition takes many iterations on paper, both drawing and painting. Once
the visual organization feels right and I step into acrylic paint in canvas, I can fly
free with expressive color, paint application, and shape finding.
I fell in love with landscape painting while studying fine arts at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. Continuing this journey, I’ve tried many different mediums
and found that acrylic paint gives me the vibrant colors I am after and the
flexibility to shift and alter the image.