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From Abstract Shapes to Flowers
From Abstract Shapes to Flowers It is usually expected that an artist will have a consistent body of work. Visual artists create their objects using images that they internalized during their lives and these come out in the expression of their work. We all are influenced by what we see. We often emulate the work of other artists, yet turn it into something personal that is a unique expression of our own vision. In my case I was very influenced by the work of artists such as Kandinsky and Paul Klee. My paintings are usually abstract. I am not interested in figure drawing or landscape painting but still life paintings of fruit and flowers intrigue me. When I was a child my drawings were flowers. I decorated the borders of all of my school papers with flowers. I drew flowers on the wall next to my bed. I wasn’t aware of these drawings as being “art.” They were an expression of my world. I had never been to an art museum and the only art I saw was in the movies and in the drawings found in children’s books.
There were printed fabrics in my home and I frequently went to fabric stores with my mother, who was a dressmaker. She used these yard goods to make clothing for herself, her customers, and for me. Many of these bolts of cloth were printed with all-over floral patterns but some of them were stylized abstractions. Last year I returned to drawing flowers. These are not exactly still life because they are flowers in my imagination located in no particular place. I had the urge to make small drawings. I had gone from a very large studio to one in my house that was quite small. The scale of my work needed to be reduced and somehow the subject of small abstract imagined flowers evolved from my pen. I have been working on this project for over a year and it continues to stimulate my imagination.
An idea that I’ve had for a long time is that it would be fun to have inexpensive reproductions of my work. I love the thought that my work could be available in a post card or greeting card or digital print. It would be exactly the same as products sold in an art museum where one can buy a post card of a Picasso painting. Why not? This digital era and the Internet makes this concept possible. This is from my Julie Richman Blog
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