Kathryn Field
I paint to capture the intense beauty of the natural landscape. It is the act of losing one’s sense of self within the larger natural landscape that I seek. It is then that painting becomes a spiritual resting place. I spend as much time as I can inhabiting the landscapes I paint. The act of observing the natural world allows me to move away from human emotion and become connected with something greater than the individual self. The physical process of mark making and brush stroke transforms emotion into a visual language.
I draw the viewer into the abstract space of color, texture and form where it is not possible to understand the images at a glance but rather one is forced to step away and take in the mood first and then begin to explore the subtly of pattern, surface and spatial divisions.
