Rose Wolfe Williams
My first memory of being an artist arrives with the scent of crayons and school glue, the sound of round-edged scissors tearing through construction paper, and the excitement of receiving “junk boxes” filled with crafty bits from my favorite aunt. Today, I use acrylic, pencil, and ink to illustrate both childhood and maturity through shape, essence, and color.
My art is a meditation. Born from intuition, experience, or deep connection to source, I work first with personal marks, followed by a color-filled under-painting that includes my processing of emotion, block, or other factors that may affect my life. Life is ever changing and filled with lessons. After discovering the true beauty in my own past, I embrace it and allow it to shine through. The “quiet” portions of the paintings honor the meditation process as well as the peace that is achieved through the process. Pencil and ink marks are allowed to streak, smudge, and move at will across the canvas, and they are embraced and celebrated as an illustration of the eternal life force.
If art imitates life, then it starts with playful scribbling. My paintings begin with no preconceived notions of the end result, just as childhood offers no clear view of what is yet to come. Art and life is one spontaneous action after another, using intuition, meditation, experience, and a belief that in the end, it will all be okay.
I am an intuitive and abstract artist, having studied under teachers including Gerald Stoner, Lauren Watrous, Linda Shere, Lisa Brooks, Elaine Franz Witten, and Lee Williams. My work is constantly evolving, allowing emotion, meditation, and the forces of nature and the universe help me create personal time stamps. I hope you enjoy them.
