Stephanie Willis Studio » vibrant color

The Narrows

Stephanie — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:36:18 +0000

This is an interesting copper leaf and textured acrylic work. The Narrows refers to a narrow canyon in Zion National Park that I visited some years ago where the canyon walls are incredibly sheer and close together, forming a dramatic vertical.

A New Tryptich

Stephanie — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:35:07 +0000

Dusk, Midday and Dawn are the titles of this tryptich depicting the progression of the sun. I love this technique of thin watercolor-type washes over a scratched and textured acrylic foundation. These canvases are 60×24″ each and this tryptich is at Freed Gallery in Lincoln City, Oregon.

New work at Freed Gallery

Stephanie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:41:38 +0000

Here are a couple of new pieces delivered to the Freed Gallery in Lincoln City this week. I like to work on a heavily textured canvas and sometimes add collaged elements to the mix, too. This one, Paleolithic Mapquest, reminds me of a cave painting, if cavemen had roads and maps! The colors and the incised lines are very appealing to me, but I am not sure if it is too somber?

I also have the 2nd in the Cyberspace series, Cyberspace II which I have been working on for over a year. It has the incised textures and also a collage of squares of various textured papers, which have been covered in gold and copper leaf, then glazed over. This series is inspired by how I think about the stream of electronic information and how some bits (bytes) occasionally escape from the stream and meander into that vast uncharted ether. It is my visualization of what has occurred when a file won’t open. Most people think it is a landscape, and that’s a legitimate connection.