Paula Ortgiesen

Sea Shell

16 x 16 x 1.5"

Acrylic and Resin on Canvas

$200

My aim is for my work to embody creativity, imagination and passion.

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, of course, is that the viewer's journey with it has only just begun.