Color Forward - Art and Nature by Ann Young

Saturday, October 4, 2014

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #115 & #116

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #115 & #116 oil on linen 6"x6" 2014 This series is all about finding color and beauty in unexpected places. The water shield is a little floating plant in a pond near my house. I paint these pictures because I want to show everyone the beauty that I find there.

Monday, September 29, 2014

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #113 & #114

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #113 & #114 oil on linen 6"x6" 2014

Monday, September 15, 2014

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #111 & #112

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #111 & #112 oil on linen 6"x6" 2014

Monday, September 8, 2014

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #109 & #110

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #109 & #110 oil on linen 6"x6" 2014

Saturday, September 6, 2014

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #107 & #108

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #107 & #108 oil on linen 6"x6" 2014

Monday, September 1, 2014

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD # 105 & #106

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #105 & #106 oil on canvas 6"x6" 2014

Saturday, August 23, 2014

LATEST INCARNATION

I have now placed persephone back into the surreal landscape. She is climbing up out of the underworld. I think I will be happy with this version when it is done.

Monday, August 18, 2014

BACK TO SQUARE ONE

When something isn't working, it is time to paint over it and start anew. So now, I have painted the old Persephone out of the "emerging from the underworld" landscape and created a plasticine model that I can use as a reference when I put her back in. Back to square one.

Monday, August 11, 2014

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #103 & #104

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #103 & #104 oil on linen 6"x6" 2014 These two little red ones are among my favorites of the series.

Monday, August 4, 2014

Installation views

My show at Catamount Arts will be up for the entire month of August. The two large paintings are 36"x36". The group of paintings are 20"x20" on the top and bottom rows and 6"x6" in the middle.

Saturday, August 2, 2014

AUTUMN POND ABSTRACT installation views

These are two views of my current show at Catamount Arts in St Johnsbury VT. They show 36"x36" paintings from the same Water Shield series that I have been posting lately. The show runs through the month of August.

Monday, July 28, 2014

WHO NEEDS ART

RESURRECTION - WATER SHIELD #101 & #102 oil on linen 6"x6" 2014 WHO NEEDS ART? When I go out paddling on May Pond, I see all of the things that one expects to enjoy on a lovely autumn day in Vermont. There are the hills, brilliant in their fall colors, the sparkling sky, a loon or maybe two. At the very shallow end of the pond the depth diminishes and eventually the muddy bottom comes up to the surface and the kayak can go no further. It is here that I find the Water Shield plants (Brasenia scherberi). In September and October these tiny floating leaves put on their autumn colors. The leaves are riddled with the trails of leaf miners and spots of decay. All of this make for a stunning array of color and pattern. As I paddle among them, I am dazzled and completely absorbed by the beauty to be found in an unlikely place in an unassuming little plant. And I think to myself - with every square inch of the surface a study in abstract pattern and color, "who needs art, anyway?" - Then I finally realized that it is I who needs art. I need it so that I can have some means of conveying to other people what I have seen and rejoice in. These paintings are the reflection of that joy in natural color and form. I feel that my paint brush has been recruited into the service of a common, little water plant.