Maggie Remington
11-24-09 72x25 Hotel Villa Matisse, Tulum, QRoo, Mexico.jpg
11-23-09 Hotel Villa Matisse, Tulum, Mexico 72" x 25"
11-22-09 Hotel Villa Matisse, Tulum, Mexico 72x25
11-19-09 Hotel Villa Matisse, Tulum, QRoo, Mexico 72"x25"
11-15-09 Hotel Villa Matisse, Tulum, Mexico 72x25
07-09-09 Truchas,NM 72x37workshop
08-02-09 Canyon De Chelly, Spider Rock Campground, Chinle, AZ 72x48
The Earth Paintings are raw-edged artist canvas of textured abstraction in southwestern landscape colors. I have a portable studio,for sustained travel and camping where climate,geology and topography permit long hours of sweaty activity in the open air and access to useable soils. I hammer,crush,sift and prepare the different colors into separate bowls.I spread the unprimed unstretched canvas out on the ground. I sit, kneel, crouch, stand, bend over as I apply the different earths to the canvas with my hands and paint brushes. While painting I loose myself into total focus on the task–feeling the colors, how they wish to be spread on the canvas. When the canvas dries it has a texture similar to leather which gives the painting enough consistency to hold the hills and valleys created as I nail the painting to a frame or directly to the wall. They are signed and dated with the location where painted on the back. The earth paintings provoke reflection, they invite viewers to experience a response to place.