Diana Scott-Auger

His Chair

10 x 8 x .75", framed to 15.25 x 13.25 x 1"

Acrylic on Canvas

First Place Award

$525

I was drawn to the light and dark contrasts, and the directional lines pervading this chair and setting. After making a thumbnail sketch, I vowed to paint this poignant scene some day. And here it is.

Artist's Statement:

Rather than adherence to a signature style or subject matter, it is a creative impulse that determines my idea, interpretation and whether I use acrylic paint, pen and ink, or both mediums together.

Using brush strokes resembling the lushness of oils, my acrylic paintings are expressive representations, while with ink, lines define as well as flow unfettered. The goal always is to visually connect and embrace viewers' emotions in order to start a conversation or a story that can be fueled by their imagination.

Painting is my form of meditation. In the studio, I am in a cocoon of calm when touching paint to canvas or ink to paper, and time floats by unnoticed. My signature may mark a piece as finished, but it is the doing -- resolving creative challenges along the way -- which is my reward and completes my personal journey. The hope, then, is that the viewer's journey with it has only just begun.